MASKED BURGLARS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22355, 28 February 1936, Page 5

MASKED BURGLARS

1 1 fc WOMAN BRUTALLY FELLED f [from otxr own correspondent] MELBOURNE, Feb. 14 3 Entering the grocery shop of Mr. P. s Leatch, in Essendon, shortly before clos--1 ing time to-night, three masked men, r two armed with revolvers and one carry- ? ing a weighted club, menaced the pro- * prietor, brutally felled his wife with a ] blow in the face when she offered some resistance, and rifled the till of several x pounds. e Ronald, the nine-year-old son of Mr. - and Mrs. Leatch, who was playing in ? the doorway of the shop, was flung callously into the gutter, and he fled terrii Red to a neighbour's house. With his 1 armed companions covering his rex treat, the man who had struck Mrs. s Leatch escaped to a waiting motor-car f with the money, and the three drove ii off in the direction of Melbourne. The robbery had occupied only a few minutes, and the men had made good e their escape before the alarm was'given. t i! f Sixty of Minhinnick's best cartoons ' and strips of recent .nonths now in one booklet: " Cartoons: Political and Otherwise " Price Is fid Postage. Hfl * Ccpies of photographs taken oy Me* 2 Zealand Herald and The Weekly New? J staff photographers may be purchased from , the Pictorial Department, third floor ' Herald Building*. Tejephone 80-078. The r cost of wkole-plata print* i* 2* fid Mcb and half-plate la Gd.