Haulier and Driver Sent for Trial
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A HAULAGE contractor and a lorry 1-1 driver were sent for trial at Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions after appearing at Dursley, last week, accused. of stealing zinc ingots worth £435.
Gilbert Isaac May, the contractor, 9 Gaythorne Crescent, Yate, Glos, who reserved his defence, was committed in custody, after being refused bail. Francis John Pearce, 17 Parsons Avenue, Stoke Gifford, Glos, who was allowed bail of £50, pleaded guilty.
Albert William Febry, Station Road, Yate, a director of R. and W. Febry and Sons, Ltd., said that on August 17 he ordered Pearce, one of his drivers, to pick up 10 tons of lead and 5 tons of zinc from the National Smelting Co. at Avonmouth, and take it to South Wales.
Next morning Pearce reported that his lorry and part of the load had been stolen.
Another of Febry's drivers. Ronald William Henden, Iona, Silver Street, Colerne, said that on August 17, at Cambridge, Glos, he saw two lorries parked behind a hedge on a lay-by. One lorry belonged to Febry, the other was red. Two men were on the scene, but he did not recognize them.
Wilfred Henry May, no relation to the accused, a driver and buyer for the West Country Zinc and Aluminium Refining Co., Ltd., Radstock, said that as a result of a message received he went to May's premises on August 18.
He saw a red lorry with a load of zinc. May said he found it there on arrival that m orning,.
P.c. B. T. Watkins, Chipping Sodbury, said that be asked May what was being unloaded. May said: "It is some stuff I bought." Det. Constable J. E. Hart said that Pearce told him 5 tons of zinc had been stolen from his lorry since.