SYDNEY ARREST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 209, 5 September 1938, Page 11

SYDNEY ARREST.

ARMED HOLD-UP.

SUSPECT EXTRADITED.

ARRIVES ON AORANGI.

REMAND IN POLICE COURT.

Arrested in Sydney on Auguet 15 on a provisional warrant issued at Auck land, charging him with armed robbery at * city service station on August 8 Arthur Stickings, aged 30, a taxi driver returned by the Aorangi to Auckland this morning in the custody of Detective H. A. Wilson.

Stickings, slim, dark> and n d that at Auckland on August 8, beine armed with a shotgun, he did rob Frank ?i a leath€r brief and £219 9/9, the property o f the Attl Taxi Company, Limited.

Accused was. represented by Mr Selwyn Clarke. *

Detectne-Sergeant McHugh asked for a remand until September 12. This was frranto.K and immediately Sticking Teft the dock and returned to the prisoner" room a number of people who Ld obviously come to see him make his brief appearance left the public portion of the

The other suspect held in connection with the same incident, Harold Last Gray (49), a ehip'i.fireman, made a further appearance thie morning on a similar charge. ™ lulr ° n . il lO tT ap f ,i 5f tion of Detective-Ser-Hi* Z"&?\T tOO ' ~ remanded

Early on the morning of Mondav August 8, at the Atta Service Station' Upper Queen Street, the night attendant viae held ~p by two men-one of whom allegedly had a sawn-off shotgun-and robbed of £219 A warrant wL suose quently issued for the arrest of Sticklngs, who formerly lived in Auckland, and who was ultimately taken into cuetody along with Florence Stewart in Sydney shortly after the arrival of the Awatea.