HAWKER’S MISTAKE
TRIED TO TAKE TRUCK NOT RESPONSIBLE WHEN DRUNK Stanley Lawerance Couch, who was described by Sub-Inspector McCarthy as “an honourable and decent fellow as a rule, but not responsible for his actions when drunk,” was charged at the Police Court this morning with attempting to convert to his own use a motor-tuck valued at £BO. Couch, who was apprehended by a traffic inspector, said in a statement that he was a hawker and owned a truck similar to the one in which he had found.. While at the City Market yesterday, he had left his truck outside, and it had been stolen. He then had. a few drinks and had been told by an acquaintance whose name he did not know that he could borrow “Smithy’s” car to go and look for his vanished truck. He thought that it was “Smithy’s” car he was trying to start in Fort Street when he was arrested.
A suggestion that a prohibition order be issued .was made by Mr. F. W. Schraum, who appeared for Couch. This was agreed to by Mr. W. R. McKean. S.M., who admitted the prisonef to probation for two years.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 402, 10 July 1928, Page 1
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194HAWKER’S MISTAKE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 402, 10 July 1928, Page 1
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