Hold-up at Day’s Bay Service Station
MAN HELD WHILE INQUIRIES BEING MADE Per Press Association. MASTERTON, Last Night. “Accused may have been connected with the hold-up at the Day's Bay service station," said Sergeant T. 11. Dyer when asking in the Magistrate's Court to-day for a remand in a ease in which George Henry Ellis, aged 23, a mechanic, of Wellington, was charged with obtaining four gallons of petrol in Masterton by representing that he was employed by a Wellington service station.
The sergeant said that accused had made a statement regarding his movements in Wellington which the police wished to verify.
Ellis was arrested on the arrival of a service car at Featherston from-Wel-lington on Tuesday morning. He was remanded to appear at Masterton on August 19.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6626, 13 August 1931, Page 6
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