Benzine Thieves

NZ Truth, Issue 1143, 27 October 1927, Page 7

Benzine Thieves

WHEN you are on a long .distance ' spin m a car and you run out of benzine, do not adopt the tactics of two Wellington men, Christian Bert Chandler and James Reid, who resorted to the expedient of helping themselves. When on a motoring jaunt to Wanganui recently, they found the car running short of that very essential lubricant — benzine. They had already covered a considerable portion of the journey i and — coming to a store where no one was m attendance — they helped themselves from a drum of this ; precious fluid. The drum was rolled some hundred yards from its original rest-ing-place, the cap removed and the benzine ladled out with an old tin. Charged before Magistrate Salmon m the Wellington Police Court last week, with the theft of 26 gallons of petrol, the property of the British Imperial Oil Company, accused pleaded guilty and were convicted and fined £5 each. They were also ordered to make restitution of the full cost of the petrol, the amount to be shared between them. Application for the suppression of their namea was refused. imtmiii tiiiu«iiitn)iiiiitiiiiiiiiiii»tmimifliiiiimiiiMiiiMiiiiiiiin»ninHKHiiiut»iniiitminiimiP