GAGGED AND BOUND.
SAFEBREAKERS AT WORK
MELBOURNE, Fob. 2. Recent cases of safebrealdng indicate that a desperate'arid expert gang of criminals is at work in Mel bourne.
Early yesterday morning they entered the Hotel Victoria, Bonconsfield Parade, gagged and bound the nighl porter, and blew open the iron safe in the office. All they got was £7 in coppers.
Robert Simpson (night porter) sustained a black eye in the encounter with the criminals/ He said he was asleep in the vestibule of the hotel, and was awakened to And a man with his hand spread over his eyes. lie was lying on his back and several men pushed him over towards 1 the wall on his face. They pulled a pillow from under his head and pressed' it over his face, tore his braces off and tied his hands behind his back with them, end tied his legs with a piece of window blind cord. One. of them held a revolver against, his head, and said, •'Sit still, or I 'will blow your brains out." The intruders made oil: in a motor-car.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15747, 11 February 1922, Page 11
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