ROBBERY UNDER ARMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18283, 29 December 1933, Page 4

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS

WANGANUI SENSATION MOTORIST I! KM) UP FORCED TO HAND OUT £BO (For Press Association.) WANGANUI, last night. A fully masked liian. tirnit'd with :t revolver, held up Mr. Frank Corrigan, a. well known Wanganui commission agent, late on Wednesday night, made him drive his ear to a convenient spot, and there relieved him of a sum of money in notes approximating £BO. Air. Corrigan lives in Brasscy road, St. .John’s Hill, and before midnight drove home. He had put his ear in the garage when the man appeared and presenting a revolver, threatened to shoot unless Mr. Corrigan got back into the driver’s seat. To disobey was out of the question, and keeping his man covered, the stranger made him drive some yards down tin* road, and then demanded money. Air. Corrigan parted with the sum mentioned and later informed the police.

This is the second incident of this nature that has occurred here within the past fortnight. On the last occasion a tramway conductor was held up in the Corporation tramway offices and robbed of £3. Similar circumstances surround Wednesday’s hold-up, in that the man who carried it off was masked in much the same way, his face and top of his head being covered with a rough hood-shaped mask.

Late on Wednesday night a policeman on beat looked in to the back of the Plaza Picture Theatre, and seeing a man standing there made investigations. Three men hurriedly disappeared as the officer came near. Marks on a door suggest that an attempt was being made to force an entry to Ihe theatre, where the thieves would anticipate a big holding in cash in view of the bank holidays.