TWO SHOTS.
BULLET GRAZES MAN’S HEADTHRILLING CHASE. MELBOURNE, Sept. 29. Two armed men rifled the till of a small shop in Lygon Street, Brunswick last night, and in making their getaway, fired two shots in the direction of two young men who chased them.
Mrs Madge White, proprietress, hearing a loud noise in her shop ran through from the kitchen and found two men behind the counter bending over the till.
One of them held a revolver at her face and said “Stand back or I’ll kill you.” Terrified, the woman retreated, and the men escaped with £2. Two men, Stanley Williams and Robert McVitty, who were sitting in a motor car outside the shop, heard the woman’s cries and pursued the men in the car, and caught up with them in an adjoining street. When McVitty leaped out of tho car to catch hold of them, one of them fired two shots, one went wide, but the other grazed McVitty’s forehead. The men then got away.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 272, 15 October 1927, Page 2
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