ARMOURY RAIDED
FREE STATE MARAUDERS. NIGHTWATCHMAN ATTACKED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, April 8. Half a dozen men with blackened faces pounced on Robert Russell, a nightwatchman at Braidwater spinning mills, Ballymena, while he was stoking a fire after midnight and bound and gagged him. They then smashed the door of the local constabulary's arms store and took 17 rifles and 1000 rounds of rifle and 3000 rounds of revolver ammunition and many revolvers and decamped in a motor car. Russell rolled round the yard for an hour endeavouring to loosen the bonds. Eventually he drew a knife from his pocket and cut them. He rushed to the engine room and blew the alarm siren, turning out the populace and the police. The raiders have not been traced.
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Southland Times, Issue 22295, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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131ARMOURY RAIDED Southland Times, Issue 22295, 10 April 1934, Page 5
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