ARMED HOLD-UP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 271, 15 November 1937, Page 10

ARMED HOLD-UP.

GARAGE ATTENDANT.

THREE MASKED BANDITS.

FORCED TO OPEN TELL.

SYDNEY, November 12.

Held up at gunpoint by three masked men, whilst on duty at a garage on the corner of Cleveland and Regent Streets, Redfera, late at night, Stanley McGinley, 21, was forced to open the till and wrap up the takings— £3 0/4— in a piece of paper.

McGinley was on #uty alone at the parage, and ac about 11.35 he was standing on the runway, between the petrol bowsers and the office, when suddenly three men, wearing handkerchiefs about the lower portions of their faces, appeared around the corner from Cleveland Street.

"Before I could do anything," said McGinley, "one of the men, who did all the talking, said to me, 'Go on, get into the office, and open that till. We want the cash.'"

McGinley then opened ihe till, with one man standing over him and the other two at the door.

"They then told me to take out the money from the drawer of the till," McGinley continued, "and, picking up a piece of brown paper, the fellow with the gun ordered me to wrap the money in it."

"I did that, and I was told to 'come on,' and they forced me around into the lane next to the garage. We went down the lane about 70 yards, where it conies into James Street.

"There they made off, all in the one direction, towards Regent Street, and I dashed back and rang up the police." No trace of the men was found.