AUCKLAND ROBBERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 6

AUCKLAND ROBBERY

ARREST IN CHRISTCHURCH. SEQUEL TO POLICE ACTION IN SYDNEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 16. Pursuing inquiries into the robbery in Auckland on August 8, when two men armed with a sawn-off shotgun and a piece of lead piping were reported to have held up an attendant at the Atta Service Station and stolen £219 from the safe, police in Christchurch this afternoon arrested a man in the city. He will appear in the Magistrates’ Court tomorrow morning. The arrest was made by Detective C. P. Burns and Detective D. Watt, Christchurch. It follows that in Sydney of a seaman, Arthur Stickings, alias Peter Fisher, who was reported to have been charged on Monday with havipg robbed the attendant of the money, and of a waitress, Florence Stewart, charged with having in her custody goods reaaonably suspected to have been stolen.

APPEARANCE IN COURT. ACCUSED MAN REMANDED TO AUCKLAND. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Harold Last Gray appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning before Mr Reid, S.M. On the application of Detective-Sergeant Holmes, who opposed bail, Gray was remanded to appear at Auckland on August 22. Gray, who was not represented by counsel, did not apply for bail. The charge was that on August 8. at Auckland, being armed with an offensive weapon, a shotgun. Gray robbed Frank Pickering of a bag containing £219 19s 9d, the property of •lie Atta Taxi Company. DetectiveSergeant Holmes said an associate of the accused had been arrested in Sydney and would be taken to Auckland for trial.