Robbery Under Arms
TWO MEN REMANDED
United Preaß Assn, by El. Tel Copyright [Australian Press Association > SYDNEY, Aug. 6. William Wilton and William Nelson were remanded to-day on charges of robbery under arms in connection with the Redlern robbery last night. Nelson was charged also with having fired a revolver with intent to murder.
(The two men, masked, secreted themselves in Michael Briggs’ hutclior shop at Redfem, bound* # and gagged Briggs, covered him with a revolver and commenced to hunt for cash. They discovered a bottle of whisky and impudently consumed a largo portion. A woman neighbour hearing the men’s threats to Briggs, telephoned the police, who dashed to the scene in a car and arrested the bandits, hut not before a shot was by one at the woman who gave the alarm.)
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10969, 7 August 1929, Page 5
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