THEFT FROM CAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 950, 17 April 1930, Page 1

THEFT FROM CAR

SEEN WEARING STOLEN COAT MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT Seen wearing a coat that had been stolen a few minutes before from a parked motor-car in Fort Street, William Roy Carroll was arrested. He was charged at the Police Court this morning with theft and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. Carroll, a labourer aged 25, was charged with the theft of a coat valued at £2, belonging to H. S. White, yesterday. “I remember nothing about it,” he said in answer to the charge. Horace Stevenson White, a motordealer of St. Heliers, said he had left the overcoat in his car which was parked outside his office in Fort Street last evening. About half an hour afterward he had seen accused wearing the coat in Queen Street, so called a constable. Cecil Hughes said he had seen accused loitering near the car, so stopped to watch him. He had opened the door of the car and taken the coat, going off up the street with it. According to Constable O’Sullivan accused was wearing the coat when he was arrested. He was under the influence of liquAr, but knew what he was doing. “I never come at anything like that except when I’m drunk,” pleaded accused. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: You’ve done it before and you have a list—a month.