Inquiry to Follow Thefts from Lorry?
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ALLEGATIONS that one or more officers of the Metropolitan Police had taken part in a plot to steal loads from lorries would be inquired into elsewhere, Sir Donald Finnemorc, chairman, stated at Warwick Quarter Sessions last Week.
He announced prison sentences on ihree men convicted of being involved in the theft of a load of copper worth 3.492.
Henry R. Wearmouth, boarding house manager, Copenhagen Street. Islington, was stated to have implicated London policemen in statements concerning thefts. He was jailed for four ears, being found guilty of stealing and conspiring to steal the copper and other loads carried by Thomas Scanlan, lorry driver, of no fixed address. Scanlan pleaded guilty to the same joint charges and was imprisoned for nine months.
William Yeoman, also of Copenhagen Street, Islington, was sentenced to three_ years' imprisonment after pleading guilty to conspiring to steal other loads front the lorry.
Thomas O'Connor, also of Copenhagen Street, Islington, was found not guilty on charges of stealing and conspiring to steal.
Wearmouth was alleged by the prosecution to be a police informer and ilie ringleader in the plot to steal the copper, which disappeared between Dagenham and Birmingham and was never found.
Oct, Insp. Tavinor said that the police had taken into custody. another man believed to be involved in the copper I heft.
NO GREATER LONG-DISTANCE WORK MIEN an applicant assured the
VV Northern Deputy Licensing Authority last week that he would not engage in a greater amount of longdistance work,. British Railways withdrew their objection to his case.
Mr. R. Kelso, a livestock haulier, of I arenby, near Penrith, sought to replace on his A licence a container \ Aide by a heavier model. He did 0 per cent, long-distance and 30 per cent, short-distance work. His local v. uric would not suffer if the licence ere granted, he said, as his local customers provided him with some of his long-distance work.
The application was granted.
ROADS AND TOWN PLANS COMMUNICATIONS and their impact on town planning are to be considered at the national conference of the Town and Country Planning Association at County Hall, London, S.E.1, on December 1-2. Speakers at the opening session Will include Maj.Gcn. G. N. Russell, general manager of British Road Services, and Mr. C. Brunner, leading road economist The conference will be opened by the Minister of Transport.