A SEQUEL
TO ARMED HOLD-UP.
(Per Press Association.—Copyright).
HASTINGS, Sept. 7
A sequel to the recent armed hold-up of’ a petrol station and alleged attack on Albert Arthur Wilson, wag heard in the Police Court, Hastings, to-day before Justices, when Horace Timmothy O’Connor, .?f. and John McDonald 21, pleaded guilty to having robbed Wilson of £U and to having used personal violence to Wilsop. They were committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington, .for sentence.
O’Connor also pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering and theft of a revolver. On this count he was also committed for sentence.
Still further charges against O’Connor, one of theft of a portable typewriter, valued at £l9/19/- was admitted. ah'd on this he was ordered to collie up for sentence if called upon within two years.
Both • accused were remanded to appear in Wellington next Tu'esday on a joint charge of having,, while armed with a revolver, robbed Charles Williams at his petrol station.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 September 1939, Page 6
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