MASKED MEN
DARING ROBBERY ESCAPE IN MOTOR •POST OFFICE HOLD-UP PENSION MONEY SEIZED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' (Received May 25. $.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 25 Two armed and masked men today daringly held up five people at the Randwick military hospital post office, seized £345 in bank notes and escaped in a waiting car. The money represented the pensions of incapacitated soldiers, the first batch of whom had just been paid •when the robbers appeared. The two men warned all present to keep quiet. The elderly father of the postmistress, however, tried to intercept one man, who felled him with the butt of his revolver, making it necessary for the victim to be taken to hospital for treatment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23356, 26 May 1939, Page 14
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117MASKED MEN New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23356, 26 May 1939, Page 14
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