TAXI-DRIVER HELD UP
TWO YOUTHS COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, December 3. The story of an armed hold-up at Penrose at midnight on November 18, when a taxi-driver was threatened with a pistol told in the Magistrate's Court this morning when three youths were charged with robbery and conversion of the taxi. Keiln Norman Parker, aged 19. and Philip Jonn mondl Hariand. aged 17. not guilty. Parker and Sankey were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, and Hariana was committed for trial. The taxi-driver. Andrew Merchant, told how 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 if In a threatening manner was Hariand, 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 , a i! 81^ 11 ?? 1 ' Si »n k ey said he took p*" ln t" e hold-up more or less for excitement, ard not for-money. He got out
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24740, 4 December 1945, Page 3
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181TAXI-DRIVER HELD UP Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24740, 4 December 1945, Page 3
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