GAOL FOR CONVERSION OF LADY'S BICYCLE

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 4

GAOL FOR CONVERSION OF LADY'S BICYCLE

f Theft From Milk Bottles Also Comes To Light | Conversion of a lady's bicycle from ; Eruera Street en January 27 last led not only to. a convietion for that offence, but revealed that aecused had also been taking money from milk bottles left out at night. Charles Heta, a Maori labourer, aged 32, with no fixed place of ab.ode, faced Messrs. G. H. French and J. J. Dillon, Justices of the Peace, in the Rotorua 'Police Gourt yesterday morn.ing charged with converting a cycle valued at £5, the property of Stella 1 Ann Nilsson, and also with stealing 1/3 in money belonging to Joyee Hartley McDonald. ! On the first eount he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with liard labour, and on the seeond was convicted and discharged. ! Senior-Sergeant N. S. MilligPn, who prosecuted, told the Bench that the cycle had been left overnight in a yard in Eruera Street and it was missing the next morning. On January 28 the police had been informed ahout a Maori sleeping alongside a cycle in the borough motor camp. Aecused had been the person concerned and, when questioned, had eventually admitted removing the machipe from private property. He had also admitted, after this lapse, noticing milk bottles outside residences and taking 1/3 from one bottle. The police pointed out that aecused had previously been before the Court on theft eharges.