Shopkeeper still in hospital
The Cashmere shopkeeper who suffered head injuries | in an attempted robbery on; Tuesday evening was still in | Princess Margaret Hospital; yesterday. ; Mr Frederick Lancaster, ( (aged 55, was hit from I (behind by a youth who tried' (to snatch the takings from! his Cashmere Fruit Supply,; in Colombo Stret. | Mr Lancaster struggled | (with his assailant, and man-J aged to hold on to hisi money-bag. The would-be robber ran 1 off, and Mr Lancaster man-! • aged to raise the alarm. He! i later had 18 stitches in a! head wound and was re- 1 ported last evening to be in ' a satisfactory condition. The youth was described • as being of solid build, with' shoulder-length brown hair. A squad of detectives;, worked on the case yester-il day. but no arrest had been I; made by last evening. i"
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Press, 7 July 1977, Page 6
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