ARMED HOLD-UP
YOUNG MEN CHARGED [per press association.] HASTINGS, Sept. 7. A sequel to the recent armed holdup of a petrol station and an alleged attack on Albert Arthur Wilson, was heard in the Police Court at Hastings, to-day, before Justices, when Horace Timothy O’Connor, 17, and John McDonald, 21, pleaded guilty to having robbed Wilson of one pound, and to having used personal violence to Wilson. -They were committed to the Supreme Court, Wellington, for sentence. O’Connor also pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering and the theft of a revolver. On this count, he was also committed for sentence. A still further charge against O’Connor, one of theft of a portable typewriter, valued at £l9/19/-, was admitted, and one this he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. Both accused were remanded to appear in Wellington, next Tuesday, on a joint charge of having, while armed with a revolver, robbed Charles Willians. at his petrol station.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1939, Page 2
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