CHARGE OF ROBBERY ADMITTED
HOLD-UP AT PETROL STATION (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 27. A charge of robbery was admitted by Cyril James Martin-Leverson, storekeeper and mechanic, aged 24, when he was charged in the Magistrate’s Court today as a sequel to an armed hold-up at the Chaney’s corner petrol station last week. The accused admitted robbing Kenneth James Halligan of £24, the property of Motorways Ltd. Martin-Leverson was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Detective Halcrow said the accused made a frank admission of guilt He had said that after going to the pictures he went home and then to Chaneys, having a blank cartridge and pistol in his possession. He had bent both the number plates on his car backwards. He had handed over the pistol and £22 in; single notes, the other two having been: spent. The pistol was quite harmlessand could not be used for firing ball ammunition, said Detective Halcrow, although it would cause a loud explosion.
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Southland Times, Issue 23651, 28 October 1938, Page 12
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