ARMED ROBBERS ACTIVE.
TWO SHOPKEEPERS BOBBED. (United Press Association—By Electric Teiegrapi Copyright.) l Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Aug. IS. An armed man entered a fruit shop at Woolharra last night and inquired for apples in the window. When the shopkeeper turned round he discovered a revolver pointing in his face and he was commanded to hand over his takings. The shopkeeper handed the gunman between £l2 and £ls and the thief then disappeared. An armed robber who held up Frank Garden, manager of a grocery establishment at Prahran, Melbourne, dashed a handful of pepper into Garden’s eyes when he fought for the possession of the thief’s pistol. The robber escaped with £lO.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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