TO BE SENTENCED.
ARMED HOLD-UP AT CHANEY’S. HARMLESS PISTOL USED. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A charge of robbery was admitted by Cyril James Martin-Leverson, storekeeper and, mechanic, aged 24, when lie was charged in the Alagistrate’s Court to-day as a sequel to the armed hold-up at the Chaney’s Corner petrol station last week. Accused admitted (robbing Kenneth James Halligan of £24, the property of Alotorways, Ltd. Alartin-Leverson was committed for sentence. Detective Halcrow said that accused made a frank admission of guilt. He had said that after going to the pictures lie went home and then to Chaney’s Corner, having a. blank cartridge in the pistol in his possession. He liad, bent both number plates on his car backwards. He had handed over the pistol and £22 in single notes, the other two having been spoilt. The pistol was quite hacrmless and could not be used for firing ball ammunition, said Detective Halcrow, although it would make a loud explosion.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 14, 27 October 1938, Page 6
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162TO BE SENTENCED. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 14, 27 October 1938, Page 6
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