ARMED BANDIT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12139, 29 December 1933, Page 5

ARMED BANDIT

WANGANUI BUSINESS MAN ■ HEED UP. C/vL forced to drive robber • y iN.fcA-ii<' then relieved 6f *so. SECOND INCIDENT IN - : '"'7 ' (Press Association) WANGANUI, Dec. 28. A fully masked man, armed with a revolver, held up Mr. ’B. (Frank) Corrigan, ,;a well-known Wtanganui commission agent late • on Wednesday night, mado him drive his car to a corxve n ieij.tj.|sppt>' and; there ’relieved him of a sum of money in notes approximating £BO. . ' lives in Brassey Road,; St. John’s Hill, and before midnight drove home. He had put his car in ;.gaa;agh whenr- the »man appeared and presenting a revolver, threatened. td,;.s'hp.bt::-iihless;Mr,' .Corrigaxi; got; back-into the driver’s seat. To disobey wa§ out of the question, and: keeping his man covered, the stranger made-him drive some yards down the road, and then demanded money. Mr. Corrigan parted with the sum, mentioned and later informed the police. . This is the second incident of this nature that has occurred here within the past fortnight. On the last occasion a"'tramway ; conductor was held up • in the Corporation tramway offices arid robbed of . £3, Similar circumstarices surround Wednesday’s hold-up; in that file riian who'.carried it’ off was- masked- iri' much the same way, his facta arid top of his head being covered with a rough hood shaped mask. Late on Wednesday night a policeman on heat looked in to the back of the Plaza Picture Theatre, and seejrig a man standing there made investigations. Three men hurriedly dis- : appeared as the officer came near. Marks on a door sriiggest that ah attempt was being made to force an eritry to the theatre, where the’ "thieves would anticipate a big holding iri cash' iii view of the hank holidays.