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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 4

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; WANGANUI HOLD-UF*

/ (Special to the "Evening Post.") f „ WANGANUI, December 18. The Wanganui police are prosecuting « vigorous search, so far without success, for the man who held up d motorinan in the corporation, tramway premises last night and robbed him of about £3 in silver. They have very little to work on. The intruder has beon described as of medium build, about five feet seven or eight' inches in hoight. At the time he was wearing neither coat nor waistcQat. Over his head was a dark-coloured cloth which covered the whole of his features —ft* hood similar in shapo to that •worn by the famous Ku Klux Klan, but .very roughly made.

- Motorman Melville, the victim of the hold-upj says that there is no doubt that tho intruder watched his chance so. as to have only oeo man to deal •with, A small revolver was presented in a manner menacing enough to convince the motorman that the robber meant business. Immediately tho intruder left, the motorman telephoned tho police.