AUCKLAND HOLD-UP
GAOL FOR OFFENDERS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. As a sequel to the hold-up of Mr and Mrs George Pearce on Mount Eden Road on the night of September 28, Norman Travers, aged 22, and Roy Edward Trask, aged 22, were charged at the Police Court with robbery, with personal violence, and stealing £6 in money, etc. Both were further charged with the wrongful conversion of a car, valued at £2OO. Trask alone was charged with stealing two gallons of petrol and was committed for trial on the major charge, and each was sentenced to three months’ gaol for theft. Joseph Henry Trask, father of Roy, was jointly charged with his son and Travers for unlawfully converting at Hamilton a car (hired at Auckland the morning after the robbery), m which all three were subsequently arrested at To Kuiti. He pleaded guilty and was sent to gaol for six months therefore and got an additional thiee months’ for obtaining £22 JBs Cd by valueless cheques.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 242, 12 October 1928, Page 8
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