SENSATIONAL THEFT
POSTMASTER BEATEN UNCONSCIODI LEFT-GAGGED IX BUSH. mo SXOI.EX FROM SAFE. Australian and N.Z. Cable. SYDNEY, this day. Mr Spencer Colbrain, postmaster ai 1 Scarborough, according to tho story h( " told the police, had a sensational ex > pericnco on Friday night. Ho wiig rei* turning homo when ho was attaekec and stunned by two men, who bound V alK | gagged and carried him into the I bush, where he was beaten into a state of unconsciousness. When ho recovered his senses at m dnight mV managed to release Tiimsoll * he found the keys of the post- office missing from his pocket. He reached . tho police station »>iU gagged and partially bound. A visit to the post office ’ disclosed! Hie fact that the safe had been ransacked and £l4O taken from it. There is no clue to the robbers.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6509, 1 May 1922, Page 3
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