Youth put to flight
PA Auckland Quick thinking by an Auckland woman, aged 89, may have saved her from injury, when a young man knocked her over and demanded money from her at her front door yesterday afternoon. The woman told the police that when she answered the front door of her Epsom home a young man pushed her over on to her stomach. He put his foot on her back to prevent her from getting up and presumably
to stop her from having a good look at him. He said to her, “Where’s the money?" but with great presence of mind the elderly woman called out for help from a non-existent person upstairs, and the young man fled. The woman told the police she believed there might have been two youths involved. A second person might have been waiting at the front gate. No arrest had been made late last evening.
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Press, 10 July 1979, Page 6
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