SAVINGS STOLEN

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1932, Page 9

SAVINGS STOLEN

BRIDEGROOM ROBBED.

VAIN APPEAL TO THIEVES.

When he was walking home on the night of December 23, Albert Edward Fairweather, a Melbourne tram conductor, was held up by two armed and masked men and robbed of £lB 10s. The money was the whole of Fairweather s •savings, which he had drawn from the bank that day to pay for some furniture which was to have been delivered at his home on the morning before Christmas. He has been married only five weeks. As a result of the robbery Fairweather and his wife are practically without furniture and they have no immediate prospect of getting any. Fairweather explained the circumstances to the thieves and pleaded to be allowed to keep the money, but they stole the whole amount. They confronted him in a lane about 30 yards from his home. Their masks consisted of handkerchiefs, which concealed the lower portion of their faces. One of the thieves had a revolver, which he thrust into Fairweather’s ribs and ordered him to remain still, lhe other - thief searched his pockets and stole the money. Disregarding Fair-, weather s pleas, the men left him. laiiweather began to pursue them, but the armed man pointed the revolver at him and warned him not to follow. When a vanload of furniture arrived at the Fairweathers’ home on the following morning it was sent back to the shop.