"NICE GIRLS."
NEW JERSEY HOLD-UP.
Garage Robbed in "Thriller" Style. SOLE ATTENDANT TRICKED. Vnttad Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 0.30 a.m./ RUTHERFORD (N.J.), November 28. Two girl*, aged about 16, wearing rolled stockings and bobbed hair, held up a lonely garage and stole 60 dollars in cash, plus four gallons of petrol. They appeared shortly after midnight. The driver joked with the uttendant and ordered petrol, after which she asked permission to telephone. 'I'll*! attendant turned away while she pretended to search the directory for a number. He suddenly felt a jiressure against his spine and turned round to llnd the girl armed with a pistol. "This is a stick-up. You don't want to die," she said. Cocking her pistol, she forced him to surrender his takings and ordered him to face the wall, after which she ripped the telephone from the wall and walked to the door, saying: "Wait live minutes, or else—."
The attendant ruefully told the police they had seemed "nice girls."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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