YOUTH WITH A RIFLE.
HUNDRED POUNDS’ STOLEN.
SAYS HE IS A IiUSHEANGER. ’ By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received June 10, noon. MELBOURNE, June 10. While weekly wage payments amounting to £340 were being arranged by several young women in the office at Clime’s knitting mil! a young man armed with a ritle entered the ofiice. He presented the weapon at the clerks and cried: “Don’t resist.” He then took £IOO and decamped. Several employees and townsfolk pursued, when the youth suddenly turned and fired into the group, hut no one was hit. Later the robber issued a manifesto to the residents, in which ho described himself as a bushranger, anil announced in terms of bravado that he would not molest women, girls, children or unarmed men who did not hinder him in his progress. He is armed with an automatic rifle and has a quantity of ammunition.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 420, 10 June 1922, Page 5
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