ALLEGED BANDITS IN COURT
CAR HELD UP ON ROAD. By Tciccrai>li. —Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 11. As a sequel to the hold-up of Mr. and Mrs. George Pearce on the Mount Eden Road on the night of September 28, Norman Travers, aged 22, and RoyEdward Trask, aged 22, were charged in the Police Court with robbery with personal violence, stealing £6 in money, etc. Both were further charged with wrongful conversion of a car valued at £2OO. Trask alone was charged with stealing two gallons of petrol. They were committed for trial on the major charge and each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for the conversion, Trask also getting 14 days for the benzine theft. Joseph Henry Trask, father of Roy, was jointly charged with his son ami Travers of unlawfully converting at Hamilton a car (held at Auckland on the morning after the robbery), in which all three were subsequently arrested at Te Kuiti. He pleaded guilty and was sent to gaol for six months on this charge and received an additional three months for obtaining £22 18s Gd by valueless cheques.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1928, Page 9
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