#joyriders

I just found the facebook post where Frank calls joyriding 'joyriders' from August 6th, 2013.

"BOYS WRECKED AUTO THAT THEY BORROWED," Toronto Star. March 26, 1920. Page 10. ---- Said They Had Asked Chauffeur for It Magistrate Lets Them Go Free. ---- W. Booty and J. O'Connor, youths, took an auto ride, and smashed the car. They said they had asked the chauffeur for leave, but weren't sure that he had heard. Booty and O'Connor were charged with theft.

"These boys had no intention of depriving the owner of his property," argued Austin Ross "So it was not theft. Any damage done has been repaired."

The minimum penalty for the offense was severe, one year's imprisonment.

"I'll give the boys the benefit of the doubt," Col. Denison decided at last. "Dismissed."

Allan Rumble, a schoolboy in appearance, but nineteen years in age, was taking a bottle from one person to another, the latter a sick one.

"He told me that he was carrying the bottle to a party," said a policeman.

Rumble found a flair in the officer's memory. "I wasn't taking the bottle to a party," Rumble stated today. "I was calling for a friend at a party."

It was argued by the defence that Rumble wasn't any worse than a carrier anyway.

Rumble was remanded, until Eudo Saunders, of the License Department, could be consulted.

Corley: Crown Attorney "Surely there ought to be more than $100 between having and selling. Having Is fined $200, and selling $300."

"The law lets the court raise the fine to $1,000," somebody observed.

"But why put the onus on the magistrate?" someone else asked. Didn't Lie, Anyway. Why did Roy Rumbor strike George Jung, a Chinaman? Rumbor didn't have a reason.

But there was something that look-ed like an excuse. Jung accused Rumbor of having been one of the defaulters to the extent of a meal in Jung's restaurant.

"I wasn't in his restaurant," Rumbor maintained stoutly today.

Mr. Corley: "Well, he doesn't lie. He says he struck the Chinaman." Col. Denison: "Yes, so I'll make it a fine, $5 and costs or 30 days."

When the taximan's primrose path is not strewn with tacks, he may have other worries.

Taxi-driver G. M. Gooder was minus a clock, and both watch and Speedometer were broken. Under the circumstances, he made a stab at what a patron named Jackson should

"I said $3, and he gave me three ones," testified Gooder. "I turned in the $3 at the office."

"Gooder paid in $3 at the office." said his employer's father, but the charge ought to have been $2.50. We lose custom from overcharges."

According to the fare, or client, the latter paid Gooder $4; and to-day the garage charged Gooder with the theft of $1.

Col. Denison: "Gooder. I shall convict you, but you are remanded till called on for sentence. If you ever do it again, it will not be your first time."

Lumber up, Too. It was Gabriel Ceci's somewhat bitter discovery that lumber had "gone up" with other commodities. For two pieces of material, Ceci paid $5 and costs, and the authorities wouldn't let him keep the lumber, either. Why? The charge was theft.

"YOUTHS ARRESTED," The Globe and Mail. April 29, 1935. Page 11. --- Theft of Car for Joy-Riding Is Charge ---- Two young men who, according to the police have been making a practice of stealing motor cars from second-hand dealers' lets and fitting them with fresh license plates so that they could use them for joy-riding, were arrested over the week-end by Detectives Richardson and Vance of headquarters motor squad. The prisoners are: George Stephens, Bathurst Street; and Kenneth Moore, Westmoreland Avenue. Stephens is charged with theft of cars owned by Parkdale Motors and Blyth Motors. and Moore's alleged offense was the theft of an automobile from British-American Motors.

"MAKING THE PENALTY FIT." Ottawa Journal. October 5, 1932. Page 8. ---- For stealing an automobile two Ottawa men were sentenced by Magistrate STRIKE to two years in the penitentiary. In another case, for attempting to steal a car, a sentence of one year in the reformatory was imposed by the same magistrate.

It is high time the courts did something more effective than talk sternly to youths and men who look upon the theft of an automobile as a boyish prank and who do not hesitate to go "joy-riding" in any machine foolishly left un. locked by its owner. The person who casually "borrows" a roll of bills left lying about, no matter how excellent his intentions of returning it, is not as a rule given much sympathy by the court. But if he takes a motor car, if he explains that he had no intention of keeping it but just wanted to take his friends for a drive, in a great many instances he is told to be a good boy for the future and nothing more will be said about the matter.

Actually, of course, the man at the wheel of a stolen automobile may be, and usually is, a far greater menace to the immediate security of the community than his fellow-thief with stolen money in his pocket. He drives, as a rule, with a total lack of responsibility, since already he is outside the law, and many accidents, much destruction of property, have been a consequence of this form of lawlessness.

"FOUR BURGLARIES, THEFTS OF AUTOS BELIEVED SOLVED," Niagara Falls Review. August 16, 1932. Page 1 & 5. --- Four youths are in custody, and make statements to police ---- TICKETS TO BOYS ---- Conductor noted numbers and arrest of the four followed ---- Four burglaries and the theft of two automobiles staged in this city during the past few weeks are believed cleaned up by Detective George Hughes of the City Police department, and four young men are under arrest charged with breaking and entering. They were arrested yesterday afternoon by Detective George Hughes and Constable Cecil Pay and appeared in police court this morning. Without being asked to plead they were remanded for trial until August. 23.

The police said today the youths gave their statements admitting their participation in the robberies. Grandmason and Lascelles are remanded in custody and the other boys were released on their own recognizance.

Those under arrest are Arthur Grandmason, sixteen years old, of River Roard; Leslie Murray Lascelles, 16, of Ryerson Crescent, and two other youths. Grandmason pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing 180 tickets from the International Railway Company depot at Chippawa last week and, was remanded until August 23 for sentence. He is also. charged with taking a car owned by Hugh Munro from the garage at his residence 1070 Armoury Avenue, the night of August 10; taking Wendell Musgrove's small car from his residence at 457 John Street on August 6; breaking and entering Bredin's bakery on July 30 taking a quantity of cakes; breaking and entering Roy Woolnough's store, on Palmer Avenue, July 5, and stealing twenty packages of cigarettes, marshmallows, candy, cakes and $2.70 in change; and breaking into Robert Delaney's refreshment booth on Palmer Avenue, August 10 taking 20 packages of cigarettes.

Lascelles is charged with breaking into Mrs. Bird's shop, 939 St. Clair avenue last May stealing $90 from the cash drawer and a cheque for $10 on the Imperial Bank made out to Samuel Speakman. It is also charged that he broke into Woolnough's shop. Bredin's Bakerery, Delaney's confectionery booth and took Hugh Munro's car with Grandmason without the owner's consent.

The other youths appeared in court for the first time and they were charged with breaking and Jentering Mrs. Bird's store.

The alertness of a conductor on the International Railway Company's car brought about the arrest of Grandmason in connection with the robbery at the Chippawa station, in which 180 commuters tickets were stolen.

Grandmason gave a few of the tickets to some small boys to ride on the street car to Dufferin Islands. The boys presented them on the car and the conductor immediately noticed the number on the tickets and handed the youths over to Chief Perry at Chippawa.

Grandmason was charged with having stolen goods in his possession, and the other boys were similarly charged. After Grandmason pleaded guilty to the charge in court today the Magistrate dismissed the charges against the other boys stating that they evidently didn't know the tickets were stolen when they accepted Grandmason's gift.

The remainder tickets were thrown over the river bank at the foot of Seneca street and they were recovered by Grandmason's brother who promptly turned them over to the court. Chief Perry took possession of them and they will be returned to the International Railway depot Grandmason told the police he got into the station through the window on the west side.

The police say that the night Munro's car was taken out of the garage Lascelles and Grandmason drove to Niagara-on-the-Lake, and returned to the city breaking into Delaney's refreshment stand.

They forced the door at the rear of the building, and after taking twenty packages of cigarettes drove to Chippawa where Grandmason broke into the International Railway depot about two o'clock the following morning. They left the automobile in the driveway at Munro's house police say.

They used Musgrove's car for a Joyride the police say. When it ran out of gas they siphoned fuel from two other machines and also blew the muffler off, before abandoning the car in front of Musgrove's residence just before daybreak.

Detective George Hughes recovered the cheque stolen from Mrs. Bird's store the following day. A man who had shelter in the police station on the night of May 20 while strolling below the river bank in the vicinity of Seneca street said he came across the cheque. He took it to the Imperial Bank, Bridge Street branch and attempted to cash it. In the meantime Detective Hughes had notified the bank about the missing cheque and when the "shelter" appeared on the scene Teller Howard Felstead immediately notified Detective Hughes, who took possession of the cheque and returned It to Mrs. Bird.

"USED ANOTHER'S AUTO AND SO IS GUILTY OF THEFT," Toronto Star. June 5, 1912. Page 15. --- Norman V. Garrett Was Brought to Court by J. Nicholson and Fined. --- That the use of another man's auto constitutes a theft was the decision of Magistrate Denison, when Norman V. Garrett, of the Sorauren avenue garage, was brought to court by James Nicholson, whose auto was kept in the other's storage. Nicholson explained to the court that he suspected his car was being used, so he used the cyclometer as a trap.

"On Saturday night," he said, "the machine registered 241 miles, on Monday morning it stood at 283. and I hadn't used it, so I put the police on his track. He was caught on the road."

Garrett offered the defence that the car had been taken out on an emergency case. and that he believed the owner would not care, as he had often allowed him favors.

"He's heen taking it out right along." the owner suggested.