Sequel to Hold-up at Oringi
FOUR YOUTHS ON TRIAL Per Tress Association. NAPIER, Last Night. The trial opened at the Supreme Court at Napier this afternoon of Stanley Jordan Madden, Ronald Herbert Floyd, Robert Floyd, and another juvenile (whose name was ordered to bo suppressed) on a charge that, on March 31 at Oringi, near Danncvirke, being armed with an offensive weapon, a sixchambered revolver, they assaulted, with intent to rob, W. J. Cochrane, R. G. Russel! and R. Eilingham. Altcrnatie counts were robbery and assault. Cochrane gave evidence that he, Eilingham and Russell were returning by car, from the Feilding races when they saw a man lying on the road. Witness stopped, and tvhen he was about to get out of the car a man appeared with a scarf about the lower half of his face and ho]ding a gun which he pointed at the feet of the car’s occupants. Witness thought it was a holdup and started the car and drove towards Dannovirke. As they drew away he heard a bang at the rear of the car, and as he got further away another sound as if someone had thrown something at the car. He could not recognise accused. He found no marks’on the ear.
Corroborative evidence was given by the other ear occupants, and the Court adjourned till to-morrow.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7471, 23 May 1934, Page 6
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