ROBBERY ADMITTED
CHRISTCHURCH HOLD-UP
YOUNG MAN FOR SENTENCE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,
A charge of robbery was admitted by Cyril James Martin-Leverson, storekeeper and mechanic, aged 24, when he was charged in the Magistrate's Court today as a sequel to an armed hold-up at Chaney's Corner petrol station last week. The accused admitted robbing Kenneth James Halligamof £24, the property of Motorways, Ltd. MartinLeverson was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
Detective Halcrow said that the accused made a frank admission of guilt. He had said that after going to the pictures he went home, and then to Chaney's, having a blank cartridge pistol in his possession. He had bent both number plates on his car backwards. He had handed over the pistol and £22 in single notes, the other two having been spent. The pistol was quite harmless, and could not be used for firing ball ammunition, said Detective Halcrow, although it would make a • loud explosion.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 10
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