BOLD ROBBER
CONSTABLES HELD AT BAY pitn Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, December 18. At Rockhampton an armed robber held at bay two unarmed constables, who found him hiding under a bridge. The robber escaped, and he compelled a boy to hand over his pony, on which he rode into the bush, but returned at night and held up the landlady of a local notel who threw a bottle at him and screamed. The robber _ again escaped and changed into different clothes, since when he has < not been seem. The incident is reminiscent of the bushranging days in Australia.
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Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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98BOLD ROBBER Evening Star, Issue 20671, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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