ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18948, 18 May 1933, Page 10

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.

SENSATIONAL STORY.

A PLUCKY GIRL. (From a Correspondent.) MELBOURNE, May 11. A sensational stiry was told in the Central Court during the trial of Charles Richards, alias Charles Barklty, who was charged with robbery under arms.

The Crown alleged that Miss Eileen Ileinze and a sister, accompanied by an Alsatian dog, were walking along Queen’s Lane, South Melbourne, carrying a bag containing jewellery worth £IBO, when a man who was one of a number in a car, which pulled up at the side of the road, jumped out. Miss Heinze clutched the bag tightly and ran down the street, leaving' the sister and the dog to watch the car. The man drew a revolver and fired a shot, which missed, at the dog,,and then, running after the fleeing girl, fired a shot at her, and at the same time shouted to her to drop the bag.

Another shot was fired, and the girl, realising that she was being overtaken, tried to throw' the bag over a fence, but it rebounded and the man caught it. He then jumped on the running-board of the car, but slipped and fell to the roadway, allowing Miss Heinze to see his face. Before he could regain his seat Miss Ileinze’s sister belaboured the man with a dog chain she was carrying, but he jumped on to the moving car, followed by the plucky girl. The other men in the car pushed her to the road and the car drove rapidly away. Eileen Heinze, in evidence, said that she was not frightened. She admitted that she could not positively identify Richards as the man who fired shots.