ARMED MAN ROBS WOMAN.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 5 December 1930, Page 24

ARMED MAN ROBS WOMAN.

HOLD-UP IN AUCKLAND SHOP. [THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, December 4. Presenting a revolver at a woman behind the counter, a man who entered a fruit and confectionery shop at 53 Park road, Grafton, at 11 o'clock this evening staged a dramatic hold-up, aud after snatching ten £1 notes from the woman's hand vanished into tho night before her screams of terror could summon assistance. The whole incident occupied only a few minutes. The proprietress of the shop, Mrs C. Edser, who was alone at the time, was called to the shop from her sitting-room by a man, who asked for half-a-crown 'a worth of the best chocolates. The sweets had been placed in a bag, and tho man then asked Mrs Edser if she could change a £lO note. "I made the remark, 'You are lucky to have a £lO note, aren't you?', and then went to my private till, to see if I had sufficient change," said Mrs Edser, in narrating the incident. "I came back to the counter with ten single notes in my hand, when the man suddenly pointed a revolver at me. He said, 'Say one word, and I will shoot you.' I screamed out for help, and he grabbed the notes from my hand and dashed out of the shop." Some neighbours who rushed in thought they heard a man starting a motor-cycic as he made off. Mrs Edser says the man was clean-shaven, and appeared to be about 35 years of age. He was wearing an old-fashioned type of gabardine raincoat, and had made no attempt to conceal his features.