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I CONFESS HOAX IN AVON ‘ROBBERY’AVON, Nov, 7 — lt;AP Stmt*' Avon police spent several hour* today looking foe a pair of , bitehaiking sailor* alleged to have robbed two Fall River, Mass men stolen their car The search j called off when the victim** j Mid it ym* all a hoax.August A. Galaate, 21, and Ken- , aeth Silvia, ig, were booked on charge* of making a false com- j plaint and held under 1500 bail fir a Nov. 23 court appearance, ] Police Chief William E. Scott said.After sticking to the robbery story j Coe seveiai houis, nm uie viu*f, ■ on* of the pair admitted th^y ] had concocted it after they had , gone to Newpoit, JR I, expecting a date and found that their girls bad gone out with someone else Their original story was that two ( call or* whoo| they picked up in lt;Newport on their wav back to I Fall River forced them at pistol 1 point to dri\e here where they ' were put out of the car and robbed of $10, all the money they had.The second *tory, in which no ■ailorswere involved, was that they ran low* on gas about a mile west , of here while dm mg about aim- ' te*sb abandoned the car after let- 1 ting the air out of one of the tires and walked to town, where they , made their complaint to police about 3 30 « w
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Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Tue, Nov 08, 1955
Page 26
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