POLICE SURPRISE REDFERN ROBBERS
SHOT FIRED AT INFOEMER. Received Tuesday, 2 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 5. Two masked robbers who secreted themselves in Michael Briggs’ butcher shop at Rodfcrn to-night bound and gagged Briggs, covered him with a revolver and, commenced to hunt for cash.. They discovered a bottle of whisky and had impudently consumed a largo portion when a woman neighbour, hearing the men’s threats to Briggs, telephoned to the police, who dashed to the scene in a car but not before a shot was fired by one at the woman who gave the alarm.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 August 1929, Page 7
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