MT. EDEN HOLD-UP
POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
AUCKLAND, This Day. As a sequel to the hold-up of Mr and Mrs George Pearce on Mount Eden road on the night of 28th September, Norman Travers (22) and Roy Edward Trask (22) were charged in the Police Court with robbery with personal violence and stealing £6. Both were further charged with wrongful conversion of a car valued at £2OO. Trask alone was charged with stealing two gallons of petrol. Both were committed for trial on the major charge, and each was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for conversion, Trask also getting fourteen days for the benzine theft. . Joseph Henry Trask, father of Roy, was jointly charged with his son and Travers with unlawfully converting at Hamilton a car (hired at Auckland the morning after the robbery), in which all three were subsequently arrested at le Kuiti. They pleaded guilty and were sentenced to six months' gaol therefor, and an additional three months for obtaining £33 18s 6d bv valueless cheques.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 4
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170MT. EDEN HOLD-UP Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 11 October 1928, Page 4
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