TAXI HOLD-UP.
YOUTHS' OFFENCE. BOX OF MATCHES SECURED. SENTENCE OF DETENTION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Allan Clive Mangan, aged 21, and William Eion Allan, 18, charged with holding up a taxi driver with a revolver, and also with burglary, were each sentenced to-day to four years in a Borstal institution. Accused engaged a taxi driver to take them to the outskirts of the city, where they held up the driver and searched him. The driver struck one with his fist, and both bolted. All they got was a box of matches. The revolver was not recovered. Aecuscd said it was useless and that they threw it away.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 3
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