MOTOR BANDITS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 11

MOTOR BANDITS

A MIDNIGHT ATTACK A vivid story of now he was overcome by motor bandits while on duty at a garage at Dartford, Kent, was told recently by fifteen-year-old Charles Harrison, reports the "NewsChronicle." He said it was about midnight when a saloon car drove up. There were four men ..nsidc. One of them asked for a bulb for a rear light, and, after being supplied, tested it and said, "That's all right." He then offered the boy a pound note. Harrison said that the men tied his overalls round his head and an air line round his arms. One of them rifled the till of £8 10s, .and 'they all then made good their escape. "The man offered m« a pound note," said Harrison. "I went to the till, and another man, who had been sitting on the counter, jumped down. He grabbed me, put one arm sound my throat and one round my back. The other man was trying to open the till, but he could not do it. He said, 'If you don"! open it I will shoot you.' "I opened the till and the man took the notes and silver. My overalls were tied round my head and the air line round my arm. The man who had the money held me while the other otic dashed out to start the car." "I was then left. By the time I got loose I could just see the car vanishing up the road. I - ent to a shop next door and the police were telephoned for." Harrison, who is only sft tall, was the only one at the garage. He walked homo afterwards. When his mother asked him what happened he said, "Oh, it was only just a holdup." Such of tho cablo news on this pace as is 50 headed nas appeared In "The Times" and Is ranled to Australia nnd New Zealand ny special permission. U should no iintierslood that the opinions aro not those of "The Times" unless expressly stated to bo so. j