Arizona republican., 1919-11-16
NEW LAW CLAMPS PERSONS MID BUY
 AND DO NUT PAY
Arrangements Just Con- pleted Assure for Phoenlx One of the Finest Play houses in Entire South west

J. H. Allen, charged with two fel- onies under chapter 92, laws of 1919, concerning the selling of property not paid for, and taking property unpaid for outside the state, was held to answer to the superior court yester- day by Judge Frank DeSouza in the West precinct court. This is the first case tried under the new law.
 l.. NJ. Laney, county attorney, has interested himself in the case for the county welfare. He said that with the cooperation of dealers, his office could make. it extremely unprofit- able" to engage in the business of selling or absconding with property bought on the installment plan and not paid for.
 He said, explaining the charges against Allen who was brought back here from California, following an automobile transaction, that one of the charges involves the alleged sell Ing ot property in his possession which he had not completed payment on, and that the other charge alleges he drove the car out of the state when it had not been completely paid for.
 Laney made the following state ment:
 Statement by Laney
 Heretofore we have not had an adequate penal law in the state Of Arizona to deal with the person who gets possession of an automobile or other property under a contract to purchase the same on deferred pay ments and then abscond with the car. or disposes of it, without having com {. pleted his payments.
 "The last legislature. however. rem edied this inadequacy by extending the penal laws relative to selling chattel mortgaged property so as to also cover | property held under conditional sale contract.
 Since in Judge DeSouzas court this afternoon there were held the first preliminary hearings for violations of this new law, it may be we'll to make ! a statement relative to the scope of the same.
 Any purchaser of personal property under a contract by the terms ot which he is to pay for the same ir lnstallments and title is to remain vested in the seller until cornpleteI, paid for, cannot remove or dispose O, the property without being criminall1 liable unless he complies with certain requirements of the law. If he desire: to resell the property, he must in any case notify the person from whom h, IS purchasing and also fully acduain the person to whom he is selling witl the fact that the property is not full, paid for. If he conceals, removes. de. stroys or disposes of the property con trary to the terms of his contract O purchase and without the written con sent of the seller, he is guilty of { felony. If the property being pur chased is an automobile, then the purchaser cannot drive the same ou Of the state without the written con sent of the seller, and if he does s. he commits a penitentiary offense.
 'If the automobile dealers and other selling property on deferred payment will report all violations of this lav to my office and then stand by tn prosecution, whether the culprit afte he has been caught and brought bacl tries to pay up or not, then we vii be able to make the business of nay ing a little on a car and then ab
 sconding with it an extremely m profitable one"