A ROBBERY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1936, Page 6

A ROBBERY

AT GROCERY STORE, “ • •• r h hOi-.- . ■ * SYDNEY, May 1. Two' armed and masked bandits, with I a comfjambn toi guard; the door, held up a man land'his wife in their grocery shop -at the corner of O’Neil I find Cecily -Streets, Leichhardt, last nightj’ and robbed them of £3l. .

The. victiuisi f qfnthe; robbery, were Mr 'and Mrs Normal/. Coliyer. “VYe were behind the counter,” Mrs Coliyer said, “when three men, two . wearing masks and holding revolvers,; stepped through the door. “ ‘Put up you hands,.’ one said, but T thought it was-, one of the lads from around’here having a joke. “I vvafi ; s afcout to say ‘good-night, Alan,’ wheir- the man cursed me and 'repeated‘his (command. • ■ “My J husband and I both stood rooted to the spot with our hands above our heads', and the bandits came round ‘the counter.

“One wen/; through Mr Coliyer’s pockets ail'd (took £lB, and the other went to the cash drawer under the counter and took £l3.

” “They backed to the door, threatening to shoot us if we moved, and slammed the; door’behind them.”

ANOTHER GROCER

ROBBED OF £IOO. . ■?[ >•' MELBOURNE, May L Held up‘ by three armed and masked bandits near his home shortly before ■midnight, Leo Goedheer, oi East Malmanager of a branch grocery store ifi iWaverley Road, was robbed of nearly £IOO. ‘ , The thieves, who had waited for him for several hours, escaped in a stolen car. , . The three men rushed him as he passed the car, which was in a dark part of the street. They wrenched a leather hag containing the money from him.