Robbed Couple And Took Car
(New Zealand Press . Association) AUCKLAND, June 7. Raymond Kenneth Sarsfield, aged 17, with a companion armed with a loaded .303 rifle, robbed two persons of £5 10s and converted a car worth £7OO the police told Mr L. G. H. Sinclair, S.M., today.
Sarsfield admitted two charges of robbery and one of unlawful car conversion. He was convicted and remanded until June 14 for sentence.
Sergeant R. S. F. Halpin said Sarsfield and a companion went up to a couple in a car parked in the Auckland Domain early in the morning of May 1, asked them for the time, and then went away.
They came back soon after, but in the meantime Sarsfield's companion had armed himself with a rifle, and with this ordered the couple out of the car and told them to hand over their money. i Sergeant Halpin said Sars- ; field and his companion then took the car. They were stopped by a police patrol in Hamilton.
Sergeant Halpin said Sarsfield had persuaded his companion not take the girl with them as a hostage.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31080, 8 June 1966, Page 3
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