ALLEGED HOLD-UP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 12

ALLEGED HOLD-UP

PARTY IN MOTOR-CAR EVIDENCE AT NAPIER [flY TELEGRAPH —PRESS association] KAPIER, Tuesday The trial opened in the Supreme Court at Napier this afternoon of Stanley Jordan Madden, Ronald Herbert Floyd, Robert Floyd and a juvenile whoso name was ordered to bo suppressed, on a charge that on March 31 at Oringi, near Dannevirke, being armed with ail offensive weapon, a sixchambered revolver, they assaulted with intent to rob W. J. Cochrane, It. G. Russell and R. Ellinghain. Alternative counts were robbery and assault. Cochrane gave evidence that ho, Ellinghain and Russell were returning by car from the Feilding races when they saw, a man lying on the road. Witness stopped and when lie was about to get out/ of the car a man appeared with a scarf about the lower half of his face and holding a gun, which was pointed at the feet of the occupants of the car. Witness thought it was a hold-up, started the car and drove toward Dannevirke. As they drew away he heard a noiso at the rear of the car and as lie got further away there was another sound as if someone had thrown something at tho car. Ho could not recognise tho accused. He found no marks 011 the car.

Corroborative evidence was given by tho other occupants of tho car and tho Court adjourned until to-morrow.