WOMAN'S DARING.
A woman's coolness foiled a highwayman who attempted a hold-up in broad daylight between Liverpool and St. Helens, Lancashire. Mrs. Letty Owens,
of Denton's Green Larie, St. Helens, was driving her car along the Prescot Road, the busy main road bet\Veen Liverpool and St. Helens, when a man walked into the middle of the road and held up his hands. .Mrs. Owens slowed her car, and the mail shouted that her ucar-sidc front wheel was coming oil. As the car had been steering perfectly Mrs. Owens realised the man's intentions, and, although she stopped her car, she refused to leave her seat, Ihe mau- then jumped 011 to the ruhning board and ordered lier to get out. But Mrs. Owens pluckily kept her head, restarted the engine, and drove off, forcing the man to leap from the footboard.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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140WOMAN'S DARING. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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