THE HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.
ACCUSED BEFORE THE COURT. BY TEI/T3GEAPIC —PiiESS ASSOCIATION*. CHRISTCHURCH, May 19. Joseph Egan, James Kegan and Frank Bolton, with several aliases, were charge.! at the Magistrate's Court, to-dav, with having on May 11th and 15th, broken into and entered the shop of J. T. McHarg, at Woolston, and stolen £lB worth of goods. The same men were charged with having assaulted and robbed Charles Marshall, and stolen from his person a gold ring, two keys, a purse, and £4 5s in money, ot an aggregate value of £5 7s. These men are ' alleged to be the men concerrned in the assaults and robberies in Fitzgerald Avenue on Saturday night and Sunday morning. A great crowd of people altended at the court to see them. Accused were remanded till May 27th. Should the offence be sheeted home the men are liable under the Act to imprisonment with hard labour for life, and according to age, to be flogged once, twice or thrice.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9093, 20 May 1908, Page 5
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164THE HIGHWAY ROBBERIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9093, 20 May 1908, Page 5
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