HARD LABOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 190, 13 August 1934, Page 8

HARD LABOUR.

EDENDALE HOLD-UP. MAN WITH SAWN-OFF RIFLE. TERM OF FIVE ANI> A HALF YEARS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, this day. When the Supreme Court sessions opened before Mr. Justice Kennedy, George William Wheeler (28) and Garnet Edward Cranstoun (20), who had pleaded guilty to charges arising out of the recent Edendale hold-up, namely, the theft of a motor ear and breaking and entering, appeared for sentence. His Honor described Wheeler, who carried a sawn off loaded rifle on his exploits, as a dangerous man, and sentenced him to live and a half years' hard labour. v Cranstoun was sentenced to three years' detention in a Borstal institution,

Shortly after 11 p.m. on Friday, May 11, a garage attendant was held up by two men, one of whom carried a sawnoff .303 ride. A tin containing £4 was sei/ed and the men escaped. On the following morning a storekeeper noticed a stolon car passing through Walpahi and later a constable in another car gave chase. The driver of the first car (the only occupant I took to the bush, but was eventually apprehended. Wheeler informed the police that he alone was responsible for the hold-up, but he admitted that Cranstoun was with him.