DEAL IN CYCLES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 592, 19 February 1929, Page 13

DEAL IN CYCLES

BOUGHT FOR 3 9, SOLD FOR £2 LABOURER’S PLAN FAILS To buy a cycle for 3s 9d and sell it for «b2 sounds a profitable undertaking, but not when the police have occasion to interfere. Percy Lewis Ward, alias Burrell a labourer, aged 27, pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to stealing a bicycle valued at Liu 10s from Leo Berkley Clarke. According to Chief-Detective Hammond. Ward had bougiit the bicycle on the hire purchase system, paying 3s 9d down. He had then taken it to a dealer in New Plymouth and sold it for Wax . has been u-.*n,g a great business in bicycles, ’ concluded the chiefdetective. “He is at present serving ;t term of three months* imprisonment which was imposed for theft at Te Kuiti six weeks ago.” Sentence of three months’ imprisonment was imposed, to be served at the expiration of Ward’s present sentence. Ward asked for more lenient treatment as lie had recently been married. He had intended keeping up the payments on the bicycle, but could not do so when arrested. He was willing to make restitution. Air. W. R. McKean, S.M., amended his sentence, ordering the three months’ term to start from to-day. Tho question of ownership of the bicycle was then discussed. Mr. Hammond mentioned that he had no sympathy for a firm that allowed such men as Ward to walk away with an expensive bicycle for 3s 9d. Mr. McKean declined to make any order to fiv ownership.