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Youth and Man Charged WITH ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. HASTINGS, September 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 19s, was admitted, and on this he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within Iwo years. Both accused were remanded to ap pear in Wellington, next Tuesday, on a joint charge of having, while armed with a revolver, robbed Charles Wilson at. his petrol station.
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Grey River Argus, 8 September 1939, Page 10
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170COURT NEWS Grey River Argus, 8 September 1939, Page 10
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