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WOMAN IN FRUIT SHOP. ‘ SYDNEY, May 26. Two youths were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with demanding money from Mrs Florence Selman by threats and menaces. The accused were Frederick Alexander Wilson, aged 22, and Charles Thomas Taylor, 18, who said he was a cadet reporter on the , “Green Room Pictorial.” Mrs Selman, whose husband keeps a fruit shop in Darlinghurst. said that on the night of May 12 the young men came into the shop and asked for cigarettes. “Taylor immediately whipped out a revolver, and pointed'it right at my face,” she said. “Wilson put his hands over the counter towards the till. I gave his hand a hit, and screamed. They just stood there. My husband called out, ‘What’s the matter?’ and they ran away.” Both were committed for trial.
On a further charge of stealing, Taylor was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. It was his second conviction.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 162, 10 June 1926, Page 11
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