STORY OF ROBBERY RELATED IN COURT

Chronicle (Levin), 13 February 1947, Page 7

STORY OF ROBBERY RELATED IN COURT

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By Telegrapa-

NAPlEB, Feb. 12.- • An ineident on the mght .of Oetobcr 4 last when an elderly Chinese was alieged to have been attacked and robbed in a whare at Clive, near Napier, had an eeho in the appearance of two Maoris in the Police. Court today. They were Terence Eosieur, aged 37, and ivan Kyder, aged 34, both of Napier. They were charged with armed robbery with violence and the theft of £104 Gs and two wallets and six lceys valued- at 12s 6d. Both pieaded ' not guilty and were committed for trial. The principal police witness, Loo Wing, described the visit by two intruders to his whare. He was awakened by a knocking on the door. Then he heard somebody asking .for benzine. Witness opened tlie door and saw two" men. One shone a torch in witness' faee and presented a gun while the other irian squeezed his face. The men pushed witness inside, bouiid him hani] and foot, tied a scarf over his eyes and then ransacked the bedroont before making off. After wriggling free Wing found that money had been taken from clothes hanging on the wall. > Constable J". Ryan Said Wing arrived at the Clive police station on the morning of October 5 with his face bruised and swollen and leg injured. Bernice Adelaide GOrri'nge, a single woman, said she had been living with aeeused Eosieur for the last ten years as man and wife. She recallcd a night early in October when Rosieur and Ryder sent witness and M rs. Ryder t'o the pictures. Later the same evening at Eyder's home, Ryder appeared with his face blackened and produeed a wallet from his pocket. He said: "I've got the money." Notes in the wallet looked to witness like £5 notes. Eosieui was in a car outside and his faee was also blackened. He had a rifie between his knees. Eosieur later told witness there had been "only sixty pounds in the job." At Eosieur :s direction, lccys witness found on the table next morn ing were buried in tlie garden. The fol lowing day witness heard Eosieur, aftei reading an account of the robbery in a newspaper, sav to Evder: "It is a pitv we had to thump him." Witness said that as a result of something which happened at home, she (lug up the keys and handed them to tlie police on January 19. In reply to counsel for aeeused, Mr. J. C. Fabian, witness said slie was never jealous of Eosieur 's associations with other women. There had beei: little domesti-c tro'uble. ''Two days be fore r reported the matter to the police," witness continued, ^Eosieui asked me if I, had given him away. When I said yes lie replied 'How could you do such a tliing when you know I love you so ? ' " Detective Bergeari^-K. Mills said thal when interviewed bdth aeeused' denied all knowledge of tli^j-pbbery. Eosieur later identified tlie Jge/as his property and said that aboq%xtiiQ ■ time of the robbery the rifie, wa^pnv46an to another mp.. . ' .