GOLD ROBBERY.
ESCAPE OF THE THIEF
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.
• (Received April 6,11 a.m.) PERTH, April 6. One of. the bullets fired by the Menzies mine gold robber cut a button off the constable's coat, and the other cut the cloth at the shoulder. The constable was unarmed, and returned to the police station. He came back with a companion, and discovered that the robber had returned and secured the abandoned bicycle and the bag containing the slimes. Failing to obey the constables' order to stand, they fired three shots at the fugitive, who again abandoned the bicycle and slimes and escaped.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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101GOLD ROBBERY. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 6 April 1911, Page 5
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