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ROBBERY

POSTMASTER GAGGED AND BEATEN.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COP fEIGHT SYDNEY, April 30. Spencer Colbrain, postmaster at Scari borough, according to a story he hold the police, had a sensational experience on Friday night. He was returning home when he was attacked and stunned by two men, who bound and gagged him and carried him into the bush, where he was beaten until he was unconscious. When he regained his senses at midnight and managed to release himself he found the keys of the post office missing from his pocket. He reached the police station still gagged and partially bound. A visit to the post office disclosed that the safe had been ransacked and £140 taken. There is no clue to identify the robbers.

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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 May 1922, Page 5

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ROBBERY Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 May 1922, Page 5

ROBBERY Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 May 1922, Page 5

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