HOLD-UP IN SHOP

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 3

HOLD-UP IN SHOP

REVOLVER PRESENTED

£10 IN NOTES SNATCHED

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Presenting a revolver at a woman be? hind a counter, a man who entered a fruit aud confectionery shop at 50, Park road, Graf ton, at 11 o'clock tonight, snatched ten £1 notes from tha woman's hand and vanished into tha night before her screams of terror could summon, assistance. The whole incident occupied :i few minutes only. Tito proprietress of tha shop, Mrs. C. Edser, who was alone at the time, was eailed to the shop from her sitting-room by a man who asked for half-a-crown's worth of the best chocolates. The sweets had been placed in a bag when the man asked Mrs, Edser if she could change a £.10 note. "I made the- remark, 'You are lucky; to have- a filO note, aren't you?' and went to my private till to see if I had sufficient change," said Mrs. Edser iv narrating the incident. "I came back to the counter with ten single notes in my hand, when the man suddenly pointed a revolver at me. He said: 'Say one word.and I will shoot you.' I screamed for help and he grabbed the notes from my hand and dashed out of the shop. Some neighbours who rushed in thought they heard a man starting a motor-cycle as he- made his get* away." Mrs. Edser says the man was cleanshaven and appeared to be about 35, years of age. He was wearing an ■ oldfashioned gabardine raincoat, and madr no attempt to conceal his features.