ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.
SYDNEY SENSATION. BANDITS CAUGHT. Piesj Association-Electric Telegraph-Copyright. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Two masked robbers, who secreted themselves in Michael Briggs 's butcher shop at lledfern last night, bound and gagged Briggs and covered him with a revolver. They then commenced to hunt for cash, and discovered a bottle of whisky. They had impudently consumed a large portion, when a woman neighbour, hearing the men’s threats to Briggs, telephoned the police, who dashed to the scene in a car and arrested the bandits, but not before a shot was fired by one at the woman who gave the alarm. To-day William Wilton and William Nelson were remanded on charges of robbery under arms. Nelson was also charged with having fired a revolver with intent to murder. —A. and N.Z. P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 August 1929, Page 5
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