Robbers might have had key
it , • - 1. PA,..- Auckland h' • Detectives investigating o the robbery of an Auckland e! nightclub believe the.- two 'I robbers might have had a d’key to get into the premises, tli The two men, both wearying ■ stockings over their ■heads, made off: with about a! $BOOO fin cash from Alladins Cabaret ’’ in Queen Street i-jabout 9 a.m, yesterday. [J - An earlier theory .that the s’!men might have been hiding iv overnight inthe building has >.i been -largely discounted - because the club was closed on Supdayv. - ’ - - ./'An,employee, Miss Glenda McLean, aged 28, had enter■t ed the club 8.30 a.m. n yesterday.' Soon,?afterwards h she went to answer the. tele-I-phone’ and was. confronted dby the ’two men, /• one* of ■whom is believed to; have t| been carrying a small hand--1gun’.....-\ -!;. The." men .vforced Miss -.'McLean, -who .was alone; S: ’ . : •.< .. ■ . s'' .. ■ ' ! .... ■■■, ..'
d into a back room and told g her to ..open a safe which d contained the cash. They o then taped her to a. chair a with. masking tape and dis- . appeared into the early- •- morning commuter traffic, r' After several minutes it Miss McLean managed to s free- herself and raised the t alarm. The • police said she ■ was'.very-distraught. ! e -One of-the men the police; g seek is ■ thought to be part j s Maori, 178 cm (oft lOin) tall,| - wearing a cream or grey a round-neck jersey and blue .trousers/ ? •; a .The other man is about ■-183 cm (6ft) tall, with “fair i. skin” and wearing a black s pblo-neck ; jumper and dark ; - trousers.;:','. ' ' ' . 1 • Detective-Inspector P. L. f Ward -said preliminary ine’quiries had shown that the -! men did not escape by taxi ■! as. had been thought. si.\-He said the police were: ; j investigating the theory that! I a third person on the out-! ■ [side -might have made the! ; original telephone call to the; . ! club to-give the men. inside J a chance to surprise the ! woman.; ‘'. 1They might have left the t building, he said, either from d the front door to Queen tStreet/ffrom the-rear, to Ble- . I disloe '. Street ; or Myers li Street, -or’: through the 'adja-leent-Tequilla Sunrise. club.
Robbers might have had key
Press, 20 May 1980, Page 6
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