DARING ROBBERY
YOUTHFUL ARMED BANDIT BONDI POSTMASTER HELD UP £766 PENSION MONEY STOLEN (Received September 22, 7.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept, 22 A daring robbery was committed to-day by a youthful bandit at Bondi. The local postmaster, Mr. Robert Wilson, had drawn £766 from the bank and was returning to his post office in -order to pay out old age pensions, when an armed youth thrust a revolver into his chest and ordered him to drop the bag, Mr. Wilson, who was completely flabbergasted, complied and the youth ran off with the money. He climbed a fence and disappeared. Several waiting pensioners witnessed the hold up, but were too old to assist in the pursuit of the fugitive. Detectives later arrested a youth aged 16. They are now searching for a youth aged about 20.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23150, 23 September 1938, Page 12
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