ROBBING A SAFE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 5

ROBBING A SAFE.

j A YOUNG WOMAN'S STORY. (PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND, May 5. A sensational story of alleged rob- | bery on Tuesday has been told by a young woman, a typiste in a local office. She states that on the evening in quesj tion she was working overtime, and, [ about six o'clock, was surprised at the | entry into the office of two young men. The taller of tho two stepped in, picked up her cloth coat from the table and threw it round her head, while the other man clasped her hands behind her back and ran her into the manager's office. Here the taller man, finding a woollen scarf, tied it outside the coat round her head, rendering her incapable of calling for assistance, and almost preventing her breathing. He then relieved tho younger man of his charge, and ordered the latter to "get to it." The younger man evidently understood, for the young woman hoard his footsteps as he went to tho table, lifted tho keys, and opened the door cf the safe, removing all the silver. "While the safe was being robbed, the man in charge asked anxiously of liis mate, "No cheques?" Tho other replied in the negative. The man at the safe moved out of the office, and when he had evidently reached the main entrance, the young woman's hands were released by the other man, who then .decamped along with his mate.