GIRL FOILES GUNMEN
STRUCK ONE INTRUDER WITH CANDLESTICK At her home in Clarence Avenue, Clapham Park, South-West London, 16-year-old Ann Perry told how she foiled two gunmen by hitting one with a candlestick. “I went to the door with my aunt and elder sister Elizabeth. We were confronted by two men wearing Balaclava helmets as masks over their faces and pointing revolvers at us,” she said. ’’Saying ‘Keep quiet or we shoot,’ they forced us back into the house. “Then I remembered the candlesticks. I picked one up and hit the man nearest to me over the head. He stared at me, so I hit him aagin. “They both got scared and ran away. I didn’t know whether to hit him" hard, but it was all I could think of doing.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 23, 2 May 1947, Page 3
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