BRUTAL TREATMENT.
NIGHTWATCHMAN ASSAULTED. BOUND AND GAGGED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 8. Half a dozen men with blackened faces pounced on Robert Russell, nightwatchman at the Bra-id water spinning mills at Ballymena, while he was stoking a fire after midnight. They bound and gagged him, smashed the dooT of the local constabulary’s arms store, and took 1/ rifles, 1000 rounds of rifle and 3000 rounds of revolver ammunition, also many revolvers, and decamped m a. motor-ear. Russell rolled round the yard tor an hour endeavouring; to loosen his bonds. Eventually he drew a. knite from his pocket, cut them, rushed to the engine-room and blew the alarm siren, turning out the populace and police. The raiders arc untraced.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12618, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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