HOLD-UP AT WANGANUI.
MAN SHOT IN LEG. MASKED MEN WITH RIFLE. DEMAND FOR MONEY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Thursday. After one o’clock this morning the police were summoned to St. John’s Hill, Great North Road, where It was reported that a tent occupied by Clifford Charles Organ had been visited by two masked men with a poarifle, who demanded money.
Organ, who was taken by surprise, Jumped up and attempted to snatch the mask off one man, when he was shot by the other In the leg with the poa rifle. He was taken to hospital. The police are scouring the district. Organ had a wood-cut-ting contract.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18406, 13 August 1931, Page 7
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