"TAKEN FOR RIDE"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23097, 23 July 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

"TAKEN FOR RIDE"

BANDITS IN GLASGOW CASHIER ROBBED AND WOUNDED Bandits armed with revolvers robbed a Glasgow easier of £.'J(X), took him lor a ride in his own car, knocked him unconscious and loft him bleeding in the car where he was found by a policeman. The cashier. .Mr. Frank R. limes, aged 27. of Clnrkston, near Glasgow, was found bound and blindfolded in his car at Ibrox. Glasgow. H<* was taking the money from Glasgow pay the wages of men employed at Eaglesham reservoir, eight miles away. Junes was asleep when a Sunday Express ropresenative called at bis home. "My husband must not be disturbed after his ordeal," said Mrs. In lies. "He was driving to the reservoir when a man stopped him, pointed a revolver at him, and told him to band over the money. "Frank struck out at him. Then a second man. with a handkerchief covering part of his face, appeared from the side of the road. My husband was struck on tho head. "He remembered nothing until he woke up to find himself lying on the floor of the car, with his feet and hands tied and a handkerchief tied over his eyes. "Two men were sitting beside him holding him down, and tho ear was moving, so there must have been a third man driving. The car stopped, the men jumped out and ran awav. Mv husband attracted the attention of a hoy, who went for the police."