ALLEGED HOLD-UP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22269, 23 May 1934, Page 8

ALLEGED HOLD-UP

FOUR PERSONS CHARGED SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS. (Feb United Pbess Association.) NAPIER. May 22. The trial was opened in the Supreme Court this afternoon of Stanley Jordan Madden, Ronald Herbert Floyd, Robert Floyd, and another, a juvenile whose name was order.ed to be suppressed, on a charge that on March 31 at Oringi, near Dannevirke, being_ armed with an offensive weapon, a six-chambered revolver, they assaulted with intent to rob W. J. Cochrane, R. G. Russell, and R’. Ellinghara. Alternative counts were robbery and assault. Cochrane gave evidence that he, Ellingham, and Russell were returning by car from the Feilding races when they saw a man lying on the road. AVitness stopped, and when about to get out of the car a man appeared with a scarf about the lower half of his face, holding a gun which was pointed at the feet of the car’s occupants. Witness thought it was a hold-up, and started the can and drove towards Dannevirke. As they drew away he heard a bang at the rear of the car. and as he got further away there was another sound as if someone had thrown something at the car. He could not recognise the accused. He found no mark on the ear.

Corroborative evidence was given by the other occupants of the car, and the court adjourned till to-morrow.