COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1922, Page 5

COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.

A BATCH OF AUCKLAND CASES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland. Last Night. At the Police Court. Walter Chapman, formerly a wharfinger at Devonport, pleaded guilty, and was committed for sentence, on three charges of falsifying receipt# with intent to defraud the Harbor Board, and on three charges of failing to account for moneys totalling £54. Frank Joseph Wood and Harold Whittle admitted stealing a motor car at Frankton Junction, and stealing various articles from a launch in Waitemata. Wood was also charged with breaking. entering and theft from Karangahape Road, premises. Both were committed for sentence. William George McKernon, who admitted the theft of a motor oar at Helens vilie on August 15, was committed for sentence. The theft of a motor and seven gallons of benzine was admitted by Henry Hampton. The evidence showed that the car was taken from an Auckland garage on March ’ll, and driven to Hamilton with another occupant. At Hamilton they picked up Stanley Roy Montgomery and accused, and Montgomery proceeded with the intention of going to Wellington, but the car broke down at the Taumatam&ire hill and was abandoned, being taken to New Plymouth by another motorist. Montgomery was charged with having assisted Hampton to get away after the commission of the offence. He pleaded guilty, and both were committed for sentence.

William Henry Pevreal, who admitted the theft of £llO, the property of his uncle, which was taken from a room in accused’s mother’s house, was committed for sentence.