STICKING-UP CASE
« MAN WITH TWO REVOLVERS. AN ARREST. [BY TEtEGRAPII — PRESS ASSOCIATION.! EKETAHUNA, This Day. A sticking up case occurred at Nireaha last night. Mr. Dowden, manager »of the Co-operative Store, and two directors of the company, were in the sittingroom, when a man with his face covered by a mask entered with a revolver in each hand and ordered Mr. Dowden, who was nearest the door, to hold up his hands. Dowden approached tho man — who threatened to shoot — and knocked the revolver aside. The man then retreated to the kitchen, and Dowden, asking one of the others to guard the door, rang up the police in Eketahuna. While he was doing so the man decamped. Constable Grey went <mt, and this morning arrested a young man, about 23 years of age, named Alwood. In Eketahuna Alwood was formally charged, before Mr. Herbert, J.P., this morning, and remanded till the 16lh instant, bail being allowed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 137, 9 December 1908, Page 8
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156STICKING-UP CASE Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 137, 9 December 1908, Page 8
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