SEVERAL CHARGES.
THREE MEN BEFORE COURT
SEQUEL TO HOLD-UP. ,
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. Oct. 11. As a sequel to the hold-up of Mr and Mrs George Pearce on Mount Eden Road on the night of September 28, Norman Travers, aged 22, and Rov Edward Trask, aged 22, were charged at the Police Court with robery with personal violence and stealing £6 in money, etc. Both were further charged with the wrongful conversion of a car valued at £2OO. Trask alone was charged with stealing two gallons of petrol. They were committed for trial on the major charge, and each was sentenced to three months for conversion, Trask also getting 14 days for the theft of benzine. , Joseph Henry Trask, the father of Roy Trask, was jointly cha'rged with his son and Travers with unlawfully converting at Hamilton a car (hired at Auckland on the morning after the robbery) in which all three were subsequently arrested at Te Kuiti. He pleaded qiiiltv and was sent to gaol for six months on that charge and an additional three months for obtaining £22 18s 6d by valueless cheques.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 269, 11 October 1928, Page 7
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185SEVERAL CHARGES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 269, 11 October 1928, Page 7
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