ALLEGED ROBBERY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19301, 2 May 1925, Page 5

ALLEGED ROBBERY

A PALMERSTON CASE ACCUSED BROUGHT FROM SYDNEY. (Per Press Association). PALMERSTON N., May 1. Allegations that hr had been asked to go to the esplanade to assist at a horse sale, and that he had then been invited to participate Tn a game of cards and that he had finally been Tubbed, were made by Stanley Gibson ,at one time a farmer at Taurnarunui, tend now of Christchurch, at the Police Court this morning, when Denholm Gillespie, alias *L"hn Harris, a welldressed young man. was charged with the theft of £73. Accused, it is alleged was. one of a party of three, who worked together. Following the occurrence, smart work by Sergeant Power saw the arrest of Robert Howden. who. it was alleged, was the man who took Gibson to the Esplanade, but the other two men stated ’to be implicated left the town. However, in Sydney recently Gillespie was arrested for drunkenness, and it was then found that he was wanted by the New Zealand police in connection with flhe charge laid by Gibson. Accused was deported from Australia and arrested at Wellington on Tuesday. Howden was charged at the Magistrate’s Court on March 12 and pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial. At the conclusion of the evidence this .morning Gillespie pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial at the Supreme Court.