AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21146, 2 October 1930, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

A TRUSTFUL NEW NOTES'HANDED TO STRANGER. (United Press association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, October 1. (Received Oct. 2, at 0.15 a.m.) Robert Bowie, a visitor from New Zealand, became acquainted with a man in a Sydney hotel who offered' to change £2O of New Zealand notes into gold. Bowie handed over the money, and the stranger disappeared from the bar and has not since been traced, HOLD-UP IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, October 1, (Received Oct. 2, at 1.45 a.m.) Two armed men held up an employee at a taxi-cab depot at Darlinghurst today, and stole £6. A second hold-up occurred to-night at Darlinghurst. Three young men entered a, cake shop and demanded £SOO from Alexander Shearer, whose wife, who was in the next room and overheard the argument, slipped out at the back, intending to give the alarm. She reached the front of the shop just in time to sec one man leaving. She seized him, and her husband rushed to her aid and closed with the second man. Three shots were fired, but nobody was hurt. A crowd gathered, but the onlookers were afraid to help Shearer and his wife, who were compelled to release their grips on the bandits, all of whom escaped having secured £4 from the cash register.