"I WANT YOUR MONEY!"

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 7

"I WANT YOUR MONEY!"

STORY OF A MIDNIGHT HOLD-UP.

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ASHBURTON, 23rd November. A midnight hold-up with a gun was experienced by Robert Totty, chemist, and his wife, at 1 o'clock on Monday morning. They were roused from sleep by rapping at the door. Totty, think? ing it was somebody requiring medicine, opened first the back door and then the front, searched the verandah, ineffectively, and returned to bed. Shortly after; he heard a voice outside the wall.

Now alarmed and suspicious, Totty asked: "What do you want; who are you?"

A man's voice replied: "I want your money."

Totty replied: "I have none"; and the man then pushed up the window, presented a single-barrelled gun, and repeated his demand. Both Mr. and Mrs. Totty sprang from bed, and Mrs. Totty ran to the telephone and summoned the police, while her husband cautiously approached the intruder with hands up. The stranger then withdrew the firqj arm and decamped. The police arrived promptly, but so far no capture has been made. A theory is current that the intruder was a weak-minded person.