TAXI-DRIVER HELD UP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 46, 4 December 1945, Page 3

TAXI-DRIVER HELD UP.

YOUTHS COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (P.A..) AUCKLAND, December 3. ' The' story of an armed hold-up at Penrose at'midnight on November 18, when ci taxi-driver was threntened with a pistol and a knife and robbed of monev, was told in the Magistrate s Court this morning when three youths were charged with robbery and conversion of the taxi. Keith Norman Parker, aged 19, and Philip John Sankey, 17, pleaded guilty, and Jack Ormond Harland, aged 17, not guilty. Parker and Sankey were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, and Harland was committed for trial. The taxi-driver, Andrew Merchant, told, liow he drove the three accused to Penrose, when the car was stopped. Parker, holding a pistol, ordered him out of the car. The witness said the man who produced a knife and held it in a threatening manner was Harland, who later went through his pockets. Sankey, added the witness, was the man who drove the taxi away from the scene of the hold-up. In a statement, Sankey said he took part in the hold-up more or less for excitement and not for money he got out of it.