CHARGE OF ROBBERY
ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. October 27 A charge of robbery was admitted by Cyril James Martin-Leverson, a storekeeper and mechanic, aged 24 years, when he was charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day as a sequel to the armed hold-up at Chaney’s Corner petrol station last week. The accused admitted robbing Kenneth James Halligan of £24. the property of Motorways, Ltd., and was committed for sentence. Detective Halcrow said the accused made a frank admission of his guilt. He had said that after going to the pictures he went home, and then to Chaney's Corner, having a blank cartridge pistol in his possession. He had bent both number plates on his car backwards. He had handed over the pistol and £22 in single notes, the other two notes having been spefit. The pistol was quite harmless and could not have been used for firing ball ammunition, said Detective Halcrow, although it would make a loud explosion.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21179, 28 October 1938, Page 6
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