CAR CONVERSIONS
MAN SENTENCED TO THREE MONTHS’ GAOL.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN. January 25.
In the Magistrates’ Court today before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., Edward Edwin McLaren pleaded guilty to unlawfully converting to his own use cars owned by William Burnet Brosnan and George Alexander Grey. On January 12 Brosnan left his car in King Street, and the following day found it had been taken. Accused, who was 29 years old. took the vehicle to Sawyers Bay. where he lived, and left it there for two days before bringing it back to town. He took the other car on January 5 from Hyde Street, finally abandoning it in town next day. When accused of the offences he admitted them. He had been before the Court previously for similar offences. Stating that accused had had eight previous convictions for theft and seemed to have no regard for the property of others, the magistrate imposed a sentence of three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each charge, the sentences to be served concurrently.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 11
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172CAR CONVERSIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 11
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