SEQUEL TO HOLD-UP
ENGLISHMAN IN HANDS OF MOB ESCAPE EKO.U LYNCHING BARCELONA. Aug. 14. Two ineii held up and wounded the cashier ol the Oro del Rhiu, one of the most luxurious res tan ran is in Barcelona. When the bandits escaped, the restaurant page-boy jumped on to Hie back of a taxi, shouting loudly that the bandits were inside.
A crowd pursued the cab. When tho taxi was held up iu a traffic block two men got out,. they were seized by the mob ami almost lynched liefore the police arrested them.
One of the arrested men is a Spaniard, hut. the other is an Loglishman. aged 2M, the son of the malinger of a big British firm iu Barcelona. He is said to be' wealthy and to own a yacht. It is alleged that lie cried. “Keep oil; me, I am English,” to the crowd which attacked him. He was badly beaten about the head, however.
Owing, among other things, to his position, it is being suggested in many quarters here that a mistake in identity has bee Ii made by the police. A later telegram from Barcelona adds: The Englishman told his father later iu hospital that he had been threatened with death by his companion if lie refused to carry out (lie hold-up. He did not intentionally shoot the cashier; his pistol went oif in the struggle.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 7
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