ROBBERY UNDER ARMS
PETROL STATION AFFRAY YOUTHS FOR SENTENCE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. A sequel to the recent armed holdup of a petrol station and the alleged attack on Albert Arthur Wilson, was heard in the Police Court at Hastings yesterday before justices, when Horace Timothy O’Connor, aged 17, and John McDonald, aged 21, pleaded guilty to having robbed Wilson of £1 and to having used personal violence to Wilson. They were committed to the Supreme Court at Wellington for sentence. O’Connor also pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering and theft of a revolver. On this count he was also committed for sentence. A still further charge, against O’Connor, one of theft of a portable typewriter valued at £l9 19s, was admitted and on this charge he was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years. Both the accused were rema'tided to appear in Wellington next Tuesday on a joint charge of having, while armed with a revolver, robbed Charles Williams at .his petrol station..
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20037, 8 September 1939, Page 11
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