A LIVELY EXPERIENCE
POSTMASTER ROUGHLY! HANDLED.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
Press Association —By Telegraph— 'f MELBOURNE, April 29. ' ' (Received April 30, at 5.6 p.m.) « Spencer Colbron, postmaster ah. SotfC borough, according to a stoiy he tqld tMLii police, had a sensational experience Friday night. He was returning Ihhmm! when he was attacked and s tunned by tpfkuj! men, bound, gagged and carried into bush, where he was beaten unconscknai. 1’; When he regained hie senses at and managed to release himself, he fonpif£|! that the keys of the post office were mi«K%| irg from nis pocket. He reached pilice station still gagged and partially bound. A visit to the uost office that the safe had been ransacked and 3 ’; £l5O taken. There is no clue to the rolSbert. • A\
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18542, 1 May 1922, Page 5
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