TICKET-SELLER ROBBED
A lottery ticket street seller, aged 60, was assaulted and robbed of about $5O in Cashel Street yesterday afternoon. He suffered two cuts to the head which required eight stitches at the Christchurch Hospital before he was allowed to go home. Last Thursday a suitcase containing cash and lottery tickets was stolen from the ticketseller’s home.
Yesterday the seller had left his stand and was going home with his takings and books of Mammoth and Golden Kiwi lottery tickets in a suitcase.
He was walking past the alley which runs off Cashel
Street behind the Shaw Savin and Albion Company’s building when he was attacked from behind. The assailant hit tbe man four or five times about the head and snatched the suitcase from his hand. The man bled .profusely. He was taken to the hospital in a police car. The police say the assailant is aged between 20 and 25, about 6ft, of slim build, with fair hair, cut short at the back, curly at the front, and brushed to one side. He was wearing a black, three-quarter length duffel coat without hood and light-coloured sports trousers.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31775, 4 September 1968, Page 1
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