ORINGI HOLD-UP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19806, 23 May 1934, Page 10

ORINGI HOLD-UP

ACCUSED STAND THEIK TRIAL By Telegraph—Press Association NAPIER, May 22. The trial opened in the Supreme Court this afternoon of Stanley Jordan Madden, Ronald Herbert Floyd, Robert Floyd and another juvenile whose name was ordered to be suppressed, on a charge that on March 31 at Oringi, near Dannevirke, being armed with an offensive weapon, a sixchambered revolver, they assaulted, with intent to rob, W. J. Cochrane, R. G. Russell and R. Ellingham. Alternative counts were robbery and assault. Cochrane said that he. Effingham and Russell were returning by car from the Feilding races when they saw a man lying on the road. Witness stopped, and when 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 he pointed at the feet of the occupants of the car. Witness thought that it w&s a hold-up and started the car and drove towards Dannevirke. As they drew away, he heard a bang at the rear of the car, and as he got further away another sound as if someone had thrown something at the car. He could not recognise the accused. Corroborative evidence was given by the other occupants of the car. The Court adjourned till to-morrow.