ROBBERY ADMITTED
BLANK CARTRIDGE IN PISTOL [Pee United Press Association .j CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. A charge of robbery was admitted by Cyril James Martin-Leverson, storekeeper and mechanic, aged 21, when he was charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day as the sequel to an armed holdup at the Chaney’s Corner petrol station last week. Accused admitted robbing Kenneth James Halligau of £24, the property of Motorways Ltd. Mar-tiu-Leversou was committed for sentence.
Detective Halcrow said accused made a frank admission of guilt. Ho had said that after going to the pictures ho went home and then to Chancy’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 singlo 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 Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 14
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156ROBBERY ADMITTED Evening Star, Issue 23099, 27 October 1938, Page 14
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