HOTELKEEPER ROBBED
- ARMED AND MASKED MEN. . WEEK-END’S TAKINGS STOLEN. r , . ■ Two armed and masked men entered the Norwood Hotel, in Perth, Western Australia, on November 10, and bailed up the licensee, Roy Fiveash, and rob* bed him of £2OO. ">■ ; _ Mr. Fiveash had the takings for thej , week-end on "the table, when the" tw» ./ men entered. “Now, don’t you mova. J We are .desperate,” said one.'; They ■ threatened to shoot him if he stirredW\ile/one man held a pistol at Mr. Fiveash’s head, both stuffed, notes azMl silver into their pockets.' ./ / ■/■ A bag, containing about £ll-.!n’’,«l&*.:: ver, part of the -proceeds of the robbery; • was found on the lawn at the back of - the hotel the following morriing by the wife of the licensee. In their haste to/ make a get-away the robbers apparent*, ly found that-the silver was; too heavy . to carry arid threw-it away. y
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 9
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