SERVICE STATION ROBBERY
IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR (PBESS ASSOCIATION TBUSGHAM.) AUCKLAND, September 29. The two men concerned in the Atta Taxi Service station robbery on August 8, Arthur Stickings, aged 30, and Harold Last Gray, aged 49, were sentenced by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day to terms of imprisonment with hard labour Stickings to fcur years and Gray to three years. His Honour said that the prisoners must be sentenced,to a substantial term of imprisonment. . They had deliberately made preparations for tne crime and even if the gun used was not loaded they had a length of lead piping which in some circumstances was as deadly as a revolver, and a silent weapon which they might oe tempted to use in certain circumstances. He did not deem it necessary to order a flogging. „„ , . „ ! Counsel pointed out that Stickings had made an arrangement for full restitution to the Atta Company.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 20
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