HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
TWO MEN SHOT AND ABOUT ONE MAN IN SERIOUS CONDITION. ESCAPE OF THE ROBBERS. (Per Press Association.) - * GREYMOUTH, this day. News has just been received of a sensational highway robbery on Point : Elizabeth road! this morning* Tho first \ reports state that William Hall, clerk, j and I. James, manager, were proceeding to the mine with about four thousand t "pounds cash, wages and salaries, when . they were sttick' "tfp by fotte oi* muue men, who shot- botlvoccupants of the motor \ car, .seized the' money, andi took to the i hush.' , i(i . , _• Mr Hall is m a serious aMid(tion. r ij\lr, James lias-.tHt> wOTindfe with© leg. f Mr , James was brought to town and"a bul- ] let extracted from the leg. -It appears., that a box had heen placed , across the road. , James* got out to shift J -itwhenr <b|;w*as ;wourtded'V Oil recoveHhl 1 '1 himself he fpundl that the other two occupants and the Oar-haiJ disappeared. \ James was brought into town. . yt <H^e>'StickiUp»;ioccurred m the vicinity i known as "The Camp."' A The'reis greanS exmtement m town. '] Two arrests were made this morning, f but on- inquiries the: police state the ', men cannot be connected withMhe affahv ,^?^ 11 " w " as brought into the hospital at . 10.50 a.m. [r J \-A VA •' . . • '.* The oar left for the collieries shortly , after nine o'clock.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14450, 9 November 1917, Page 3
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222HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14450, 9 November 1917, Page 3
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