ARMED INTRUDER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 18

ARMED INTRUDER

SUBURBAN HOUSE ENTERED SOLE OCCUPANT ROBBED [from our own correspondent?] SYDNEY, Feb. 14 A rtian,' wearing a heavy black mask and armed with a revolver, entered a suburban house on a recent evening and demanded money from the occupant. Alan Stewart, of Tweedmouth Avenue, Ilosebery, it was reported to the police, was reading at his home when he was startled by a noise at the door of . the room. Swinging about, he found himself looking into the barrel of a revolver, held by a man whose face was completely hidden by a black mask. " Put 'em up! " ordered the intruder, and Stewart, helpless under the threat of the levelled pibtol, was forced to turn out his pockets. He . produced 6s in silver and coppers —all he had. The thief pocketed his meagre haul, glanced rapidly about the roomj slipped out of the door, and disappeared as quickly as he had come. Alan 'Stewart was the only member of the family in the house at the time, the others having gone to the theatre. The back door had been left unlatched against their return, and this was apparently how the thief had effected an entrance. The police think that the thief was looking for Stewart's elder brother, who, they were informed, had won a sum of money at the races earlier in the day..