Three Months

NZ Truth, Issue 1142, 20 October 1927, Page 7

Three Months

WITH the remark that such offenders should also be charged with the theft of benzine, Magistrate Hunt at the Auckland Police Court sentenced Raymond Strong (32) to three months' imprisonment for unlawfully converting to his own use a Chevrolet car, the property of Bert Beaumont, and valued at £150. It Was about 2.10 a.m. on a recent Sunday when Constable Moore, of Freeman's Bay, noticed a motor-car standing outside a fish and chip shop. Inside the man in blue found a Jolly quartette of men well under the sails of intoxication. As none of them appeared to be capable of driving the car, the constable produced his notebook and pencil. The result was the charge that put three months' gaol into the life of Strong, who admitted having taken the car and driven his friends to a party. He failed to appear at the court on his summons and was v arrested next day in Queen Street, when his condition was not such as to recommend him for a job on the platform of the prohibition cause.