GAOL FOR MOTOR THIEF
TOOK CAR AND SOLD TYRE MAGISTRATE’S STERN COMMENT Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. That ho was out of work and wished to go to Auckland was the excuse of Clifford Corrin, 18. to Mr. H. Salmon, S.M., when pleading guilty to having converted a car valued at £ 250 to his own use. and to having stolen a rim and tyre, value £5 13s 3d, the property of Levin and Co. It was stated that accused set off for the North and disposed of the rim and tyre at Levin to obtain petrol. The car was damaged to the extent of £4O. and expenses amounting to £lO 2s Id were incurred in getting the car back to Wellington. Corrin had been fined at Te Kuiti for obtaining petrol by falsp pretences and driving without a licence. Corrin asked for probation. The Magistrate: You take a valuable car and misuse it in this way, and expect to be treated as you suggest. The offence is treated leniently by the Legislature. The maximum penalty is only three months. This eluss of offence is a serious one and is | becoming very prevalent. Three I months’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 1
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195GAOL FOR MOTOR THIEF Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 517, 21 November 1928, Page 1
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