HARD LABOUR.
SEQUEL TO ARMED ROBBERY. TWO MEN SENTENCED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Two men concerned in the robbery at the Atta service station on August B—Arthur Sticking.?, aged 30, and Harold Last Gray, aged 49—were sentenced by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day to terms of hard labour, Sticking,s to four years and Gray to three years. His Honor said that the prisoners must be sentenced to a substantial term of imprisonment. They had deliberately made preparation for the crime and even if the gun were not loaded they had a length of lead piping which in some circumstances was as deadly as a revolver and was a silent weapon which they might have been tempted to use in certain circumstances. He did not deem it necessary to order a flogging. Counsel pointed out that Sticking? had made arrangements for full restitution to the Atta Company.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 299, 29 September 1938, Page 6
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