ARMED ROBBER
POST OFFICE RAID ESCAPE WITH BANK NOTEB ORDEAL FOR GIRL CASHIER Holding up a girl ■•assistant at the point of a revolver a gunman rifled the till at a" sub-post office in Victoria Street, Gillingham, Kent, and escaped with about £6O in bank notes. He was driven off in a touring car containing three other men, which had pulled up outside.
Aliss Joan Hunt, the 19-year-old assistant in the office, told a reporter:
"I was alone when the man camo in. He jumped over the counter, pointed a revolver at me with his left hand and forced me into a corner; then he opened tho till, took tho money, vaulted back over the counter and disappeared." The raid occurred at a time when the street was deserted, and was carried out with such suddenness that it was only when Miss Hunt gave the alarm that people in tho road realised what had happened.
It was paying-out day at the post office for allowances for dependants of Army and Navy men; more than £4OO had been brought to the post office earlier in the clay, but most of it had been paid out when the raid occurred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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