YOUNG MAN IN CAR
CAUGHT AFTER CHASE THEFT OF MONEY ADMITTED The noise made by somebody trying to start his car outside his office spurred Mr. William Hunter to speedy action on Thursday and. after a long chase, he succeeded in catching Charles Stanaway. Stanaway, a labourer, aged 21. w;. charged at the Police Court yesterday with converting to his own use a car valued at £l5O and belonging to William Hunter. "I never drove the car.” lie said in answer to the charge. “I was und- , tho influence of liquor, but I had bitter plead guilty.” According to Senior-Sergeant O’Gradv. Stanaway had been handed to the police by the owner of the car. who had caught him near tho railway station after chasing him from the Farmers’ Auctioneering Co. Stanawi v also admitted stealing £lO 6s 5d from Ronald Michael Petherick at Lake Waikaremoana on October 12. and £7 Ss 5d from Alexander Johnson. “When Stanaway was working at the lake he stole this money from a suitcase belongi*v r to one of tho complainants,’ said Chief-Detective Hammond. Stanaway was remanded for sentence on all three charges until Monday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 13
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190YOUNG MAN IN CAR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 620, 23 March 1929, Page 13
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