SENT OVER CLIFFS
CONVERTED CARS YOUTH GUILTY OF THEFTS ARTICLES RANGED IN COURT (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday Goods stolen from various motor cars, some of which the police stated had been driven over cliffs and into the sea after being unlawfully converted, were ranged in the Police Court for hearing of nine charges of theft preferred against Clifford Herbert Denham, aged 19, lorry driver. Accused pleaded not guilty. He was convicted on eight charges and remanded in custody till Monday for sentence. The goods were found at accused’s home, and included the battery from a car found damaged under the Hutt Road ramp, a radio set from a car found below a cliff on the Wainui-o-mata Road, binoculars from a car found considerably damaged near Kaiwarra, two rugs, one from a car found in the sea at Plimmerton, the other from a car driven over a cliff into the sea at Houghton Bay, and an electric heater, which, incidentally, belonged to a church.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21193, 16 August 1940, Page 9
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164SENT OVER CLIFFS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21193, 16 August 1940, Page 9
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