UNEMPLOYED MAN STEALS MOTOR-CYCLE
LITTLE PROFIT FROM DEAL JOHN HENRY MORAN, aged 22, made illegal deals with two motor-cycles, but the transactions yielded only 30s profit to him. .Moran pleacied guilty at the Police Court yesterday to charges of breaking and entering a garage on July 27, and stealing a motor-cycle valued at £42 10s, and on August 1 stealing a motor-cycle valued at £4O. He was also charged with forging a receipt for £62 10s. A tramway employee said that accused in reply to an advertisement offered to sell him a motor-cycle for £35. The price was finally reduced to £3O, and witness, before completing the sale, asked for a receipt of sale from the previous owner. Accused then showed him a receipt which he now knew to be forged. In a statement admitting guilt, accused said he had used the money obtained for the first machine to buy another under a hire-purchase agreement. This one he sold before the purchase was completed. Accused said he was a married man unemployed for the past two months. He used the money to help his wife and child and all he got out of it was 30s. Accused Was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 13
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205UNEMPLOYED MAN STEALS MOTOR-CYCLE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 127, 19 August 1927, Page 13
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