Return-load " Racket " Alleged A LLEGATIONS that goods, including cloth,
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rugs, tyres, paint and wireless sets had been stolen through a "return load" ruse were made at Huddersfield Police Court on Monday. In nearly all instances, two drivers from the south of England were accused of theft, and two Nottingham company directors were accused of receiving. The total amount involved was stated to be £27,887.
One instance concerned a load of cloth and rugs, value £4,316, said to have been obtained as " a return load" to London from the haulage depot of Joseph Hanson and Son, Ltd., Huddersfield. The prosecution alleged that the two accused drivers called at the depot, said they represented a well-known transport concern in London. and asked for a load to take back. They were supplied with the load of cloth and rugs, which never reached the company's London depot, to which it was consigned.
With reference to charges concerning Goodyear tyres and tubes to the value of £1,216, the prosecution said
the manager of a Wolverhampton transport company had a call from a man who asked for a return load to London. The man was given a consignment note to take to the tyre company in respect of a load of tyres from Wolverhampton to London, and these were duly loaded but never reached their destination.
Wireless Sets Disappeared In the ease of 1,003 wireless sets, value £19,859, the prosecution said the manager of a Cardiff concern received a telephone call from a man who said he represented a St. Albans transport company. He was given a consigmnent note to collect the radio sets front a factory near Aberdare and to take them to Enfield, where they never arrived. In the case of tyres valued at £1,407, property of the Henley Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd the prosecution said there was no evidence to link )ny of the accused with the theft c,f those tyres, which were taken from outside a transport cafe'. One of the drivers and one of the company directors were charged with receiving them