YOUNG DESPERADO
HULL COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received June 28, 11.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE June 28. The youth Clifford Hull has been committed for trial. While the weekly wage payments, amountin gto £340, were being arranged by several young women in the office of the Clunes Knitting Mills at Clunes, Hull, armed with a rifle entered the office, presented the weapon at the clerks, and cried, “Don't resist.” He took £IOO, and decamped. Several of the employees and townsfolk pursued him, when he, suddenly turned and fired into the group. Nobody was hit. Later, the robber issued a manifesto to the residents, in which he described himself as a bushranger, and announced in terms of bravado that he would not molest women, girls, or children, or unarmed men who did not hinder him in his progress. He was armed with an automatic rifle, with a quantity of ammunition.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 6
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