ARMED ROBBERS
POST OFFICE HELD UP. MASKED MEN AT MELBOURNE. SMALL SUM TAKEN AWAY. United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Two masked men entered the south Melbourne Post Office and held up the postmaster and his assistant and escaped with the cash-box containing £ls. While one robber seized the strongroom keys from the desk, the other locked the two postal officials in a rear room and threatened to shoot them if they called for assistance.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 74, 9 January 1936, Page 6
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