Robbery Under Arms

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 160, 10 July 1939, Page 7

Robbery Under Arms

100 PEOPLE HELD UP IN MELBOURNE TWO MEN ARRESTED United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Sunday, 11.38 p.m. MELBOURNE, July 9. Lined against the wall of the Foreign Club in the city early on Sunday morning, 100 men and women were forced at the pistol point by five men to put their money in a hat which a bandit passed among them. Five men burst into the club. Two presented their pistols and ordered all present to raise their hands. Two guarded the door and two armed men escorted the fifth bandit around tho room demanding that donations be put into the hat. One man who resisted was struck on the nose with a pistol butt and his nose was fractured. Another who said he had no money was struck on the neck, the bandits taking a pound out of his pocket. After going round the thieves escaped up Elizabeth Street. Three hours earlier three men had entered another Foreign Club in Russell Street and forced the proprietor against the wall. They stole £2 14s. About nine this morning detectives raided a third Foreign Club and arrested two men who are charged with robbery under arms.