ROBBERY AND ASSAULT

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 April 1932, Page 2

ROBBERY AND ASSAULT

THREE MEN PLEAD GUILTY.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

PALMERSTON N., April 8,

Arising from an assault and robbery, in which Charles Joseph Williams was the victim on March 31, John Schumacher, labourer, 25, and Frederick Murray, plasterer, 35, appeared at the Court this morning and pleaded guilty to a charge of robbery with violence, the sum involved being £53.

Sydney Sellwood, plasterer, 43 pleaded guilty to receiving from Schumacher £l4, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. Williams gave evidence on the lines previously published. Detective Jarrold gave evidence that a statement was made by Schumacher, who said that he met Murray at Palmerston North, being introduced by Sellwood. Murray had said he knew a bookmaker here, and if they -went the right way about it, they could get a few hundred pounds off him. Later, Murray and Schumacher planned to waylay Williams, who, however, had only £53. Schumacher and Murray carried out the robbery, Sellwood having nothing to do with this. The pair later separated and arranged to meet at Wellington. The money was divided between the three. Murray admitted that he had been out of prison only three weeks. He had been sentenced to two years’ for theft. All the accused were committed for sentence at the Supreme Court.