GARAGE ATTENDANT HELD UP
ROBBERY AT EDEKDALE SUM OF MONEY STOLEN Following a garage attendant into the office of 'William Suckling’s motor company at Edendale at 11.15 last' night, two men held him up with what appeared to be a sawn-off shotgun, and then took some tobacco tins containing about £4, heading for Gore. The two men, who were in a Dodge mtoor car, pulled up at the garage,
and after getting .petrol, attendant, Doujglas Findlay, £ £1 note, and followed him into the office, where they held him up and took the money before decamping. ~ , The car was a four-cylinder Dodge sedan, greenish-grey in colour, with black mudguards, black top, with a fairly new spare tyre on the rear, a push cycle upside down in the rear of the car the number it bore being 4464. Between 9.30 and 10 a motor car was stolen from 112 Morton road, Invercargill, this being the property of David Gnndla.v and corresponding with the description ot the car mentioned above.
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Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 12
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167GARAGE ATTENDANT HELD UP Evening Star, Issue 21718, 12 May 1934, Page 12
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