HOODED MEN

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1939, Page 8

HOODED MEN

MINER ALLEGES ARMED HOLD-UP

’ NEWCASTLE, April 12, Detectives arc investigating a, report by an elderly Russian-born miner that J ho wks held tip by masked, aimed. men at his cottage. ;. ' . v Accordiiig' tb tlie miner,. Adam Adams, 62, lie teas sleeping alone in his cottage at Rhoiiddaj Pear Lake Macquarie, when he was aroused by a call 1 about 11 p.m. yesterday. He went;; out and I saw. three men wearing black hoods over their. hats, with slits-for eyes. • One, he says, punched him oil ,the jaw, aiid tihq three forced their way into-- liis house. One had a gun. “They asked me several things,” said Adams, "and as they were, speaking the gun went off. A , ', . “The gunfire was harmless. ' , . “May have been a blank cartridge,” said Adams. V s “One of the men got niy shotgun, loaded.. it, and held it over me while the .three sat round a table drinking a bottle of sherry, - “They sat; for two hours like . this, talking at me, and drank the whole of the, bottle. ’■ ; “Wjiile they were talking, one of the iiibir-pulled off his hood, and I saw his face,” AdairiS;. added. “Then they drove off in small trade van, “They took three watches, two goldfilled, the shotgun and cartridges, £3, gold cuff links, and chains.” Police were not informed by Adams until to-day. \ • 1 • Sydney and Newcastle police have vioeian in touch on the case by radio. •. ■■ .-a.: iwM - . .