ARMED HOLD-UPS.
MAN AND WOMAN CHARGED.
EVIDENCE IN WELLINGTON.
ALLEGATIONS OF THEFT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day,
Jack Morton, alias Jack Winstone, alias George Morton (22), seaman, and Florence Cooper, alias Florence Winstone, appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., to-day, charged in connection with the recent alleged Jiiglnvay robberies.
Florence Winstone was charged with robbing Clifford Thomas Organ at Wanganui of £1 10/, and at the same time wounding him by shooting him in the leg. Jointly the pair were charged with being in possession of a revolver, with having robbed William Alexander Pirie at Day's Bay on August 10 of £5 1/6, also with two offences of robbery under arms in Shelly Bay Road, Miramar, on the night of August 7. Morton was charged with failing to comply with the terms of his probation order, . unlawfully deserting from the steamer Cambridge, on which he was a, duly articled seaman, and the theft of goods, money and property of the New Zealand Shipping Company and members of the crew.
The first witness for the prosecution was Maurice O'Guthrie, who gave evidence .similar to his previous account of the method by which McDermott's car was held up on the night of August 7. The hearing is proceeding.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 201, 26 August 1931, Page 9
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