SATURDAY, DECEMBER
A Chat on Car Stealing.
(By a Barber Keene).
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A number of cases have been there can be "no such a person" reported in the newspapers of as a motor owner. There are car. alleged car theft. In almost every lenders and car-borrowers, but po case the person who "borrows" actual owners. It really looks is the car without the owner's per-though if a thief supplies.his own mission has been found not guilty petrol he owns all the cara hi the of stealing the car but guilty of country! stealing some 'petrol.
A
joy-
Recently a very exceptional 'case The more one thinks about it was heard in Manchester, the more Gilbertion it appeara. man had taken a car for a
foun:1 Take an imaginary case. A man ride and, as usual, was goes to the Zoo and takes a hip-guilty of stealing the petrol only. round Counsel for defendant objected to popotamus, for a joy-run Regent's Park. Some people-this, stating that the motor and- especially policemen-might sup- the petrol were inseperable, pe pose that he intended to steal the cause one was useless without the beast; but, on the ear-petrol other; and, therofore, if he was analogy, he would only be steal-not guilty of stealing the ear, he ing the hay and buns which hap-was also not guilty of stealing poned to be inside the animal's a part of the car-namely chassis at the time.
the petrol. And he actually won
Roman Wkdom.
Or suppose a man went to the ou Chat point. Bank of England, and, while the enshier wasn't looking. helped himself to a few unattended i
A legal friend of mine, a bar- £1,000 notes. He has only to ex-rister, has kindly provided me plam that he had no intention of with "evunsel's opinion" on the inking the notes "for keeps," bu, difference between Roman Law anly wanted to take them lemond English Law, porarily for a joy-ride round the
In Roman Law a man niny stent Royal Exchange. He might be the rise of anything without inten- found guilty of stealing some ton of stealing the thing itself. paper and printer's ink, but in89 It would seen from this, that Lea cent of stelling ensh.
is logical if Law is not."
Not Logic.
In English Law, he cannot, stusil the use of anything, but only the Law la not logic. According to actual chattel; and in any cas Lewis Carroll's definition. "If it intention to stent must be proved. was so, it would be, and if it were
If we refer to the reports of se, It might be, but as it isn't, criminal enses of only a century ain't. That's logie."
back, we find that this light- Equally, one in aware Baat Law hearted "borrowing" of a man's is not equity, but it seems not un-transport was liable to be viewed reasonable to expect that where in quite a different light, and the the unauthorised use of one's per- fact that the offender may have sonal property is nt issue, the been a female was not necessari- punishment meted to an offenderly regarded na an extenuating cir should be equitable: in othercumstance. words proportionate to the magni. tude of the offence.
About the middle of last cen- horse-stealing was a serious erime and hanging was the penalty. The case of Margaret She
Every encouragement is given to the gentle joy-rider.
According to a writer in the Catchpole may be recalled. Law Journal, "the joy-riding nu was a good, brave, honest girl in sance is intolerable, and the domestic service at Ipswich. She criminal law should be empowered wanted to visit her lover in Lon- to deal with it, Stealing involves don, and, being an accomplish- the intention to deprive the owner ed horso-woman borrowed. 静 rermanently of his property; job- thorough-bred from 題 field riding alone does not. If it up and rode It to London in pears that he took the car for joy-record time. She
iried riding only, he ling heen niilty for stealing the horse, Ipund of a trespass but not a crime, un- guilty, and condemned to be hung- less he happens to have stolen the ed. With great difficulty a re- retrol he used for his joy-ride.", But how can he steal the petrol without stealing the car?
An Intolerable Condition of
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prieve was obtained, and her seu- tence was commuted to penal aer- vitude, and she was sent to Aua- tralia as a convict.
In Bygone Days,
A dishonest person might well
On the contrary, in another case i nak: "Why should I go to the ex- of horse-stealing one hundrel rense of buying a motorear? If years ago, two men, who borrowed you require a vehicle, you annex horses, rode them forty miles and the nearest unattended car, drive abandoned them, were found not, it to your destination and abandon guilty on the ground that they had it. This is the cheapest form of no intention of stealing them, "bat motoring known.. If the owner merely wanted them for their objecia, and Bues you for taking temporary convenience.
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his properly, you explain that you A marriage of convenience” in only required the car for a joy-recognised; and so it seems, until ride, and hatt no intention of the law is altered, is a stealing stealing it, and the nice, kind of convenience! magistrate will understand that Meanwhile motorists must await you only required the car tem-with patience and humility, i porarily and not permanently.” would seen, the time when our One is tempted to speculate on legislators will realise that a the benignity of the same stipan-motor vehicle is a personal thing, diary if his own car had been the and invest our magisterial one fancied,
benches with powers to safeguard
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Of course the magistrate may our movable property. Indeed, a say that you are guilty of stealing car may express Its owner's indi- half
a pint of petrol? As for vidual tastes in such a variety of i denling the car containing the ways, as exemplifted in its special, petrol-nonsense! Absurd! accessories, and-care bestowed, an
Motorcars, as the law stands at it, that it is particularly hard! present, are unstealable. They that what a man will not willing- have ceased to he privately lend he cannot prevent being property. Till the law fe altered wantonly borrowed,
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For driving a car while he had one arm around a female | THE HONG KONG passenger, a motorist was charged with "driving in a manner dangerous to the public," and was fined.
The Neckers' League rose in Its ire |More hardened members. deftly And preached a wild cruande;
staged
From every eye there spurted fire, A "one arm drive" parade;" While every man and nidid
They'd change this Irksome law, Resonantly and wrathfully repeat: they vowed, exhibiting their
skill, ed, oft, their pledge, Which echoed in the shadows deep And threatened any Government which flouted their sweet will, They'd Neck, By Heck!
of every screening hedge:
"By Heck! we'll neck.".
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Two cities in Great Britain are]" According to statistics recently scrapping tramways in favour of compiled from a survey of 200. motor buses. In Greenock the automobiles In Chicago, only 6 Ilnes and overhead gear have been per cent. of the automobiles in taken down,' and Manchester that city have perfectly adjusted Council has replaced the trams by brakes and 5 per cent, of them are
buses on several routes, one-arm drivera, "overy-
absolutely dangerous, whore,
"Now, Freedom! Shrick as no'er Revolt was in the very air,
you've shruck-
Since Kosciusko fell;
At liberty this blow is struck;
| At sentiment as well;
Because one arm around a waist
was lovingly entwined, And only one controlled his car,
a gallant has been fined By Heck, one cheque,"
While novice Neckers frothed and
ragedies, JÁ And swore, they'd not be stayed,
A reign of terror brewed, While
Their fleres demands renewed,
A Premier wise revoked the law. TIGHTEN NEW CAR BOLTS.
tanid: "Put it on the shelves "The only danger Neckers. make is
* peril for themselves, the For woman still must catch a man who caras and digs and delves " No check Let'm Neck"-Sydney
Sun.
· RECORD FOR TUBE,
August was the record month In After the new car has been driven a thousand miles. It is phe, ufe of the Holland vehicular mood.nlan to tighten all body holts, Pthis time the padding pince between the body and chassis har had an ortunity to settle,
be under the Hudson rivar: More than 1,110,000 cars,” passed" hrough the tunnel that month, and paid a pet revenue of $482,300.