MAIL VAN ROBBERY
THREE PERSONS ARRESTED. WOMAN FIRES HARMLESS PISTOL. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, November 12. (Received Nov. 12, at 10 p.m.) Detectives entered a restaurant at Coventry and arrested a man and two young women who are supposed to have committed the recent hold-up at Pershore. While being ushered into a taxicab one of the women whipped out a pistol, and fired, shouting “ITI get you if it takes me 10 years,” The pistol was similar to that used by the starters of athletic races, and fired only blank cartridge.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
On November 7, a bandit, accompanied by two women, all masked and armed, bold up a mail van outside Pershore, a market town in Worcestershire. One woman covered the driver with a revolver, while her companions secured three bags. All drove off in a waiting motor car, which was found abandoned in a ditch four miles away. The bags wore also found rifled.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19946, 13 November 1926, Page 14
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