COUPLE GAGGED
£2OOO Stolen From Motel
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copvriqht) MELBOURNE, Jan. 17.
Two thieves forced their way into a hotel-motel near Eildon early today, bound and gagged the manager and his wife and got away with more than £2OOO from the office safe.
The men chatted and joked with the manager, Mr Kevin Murphy, aged 30. as they trussed him in his bed with ties and gagged and blindfolded him with handkerchiefs. While they were tieing him. they allowed his wife to feed her 3-months-old baby. They even threw a cold bottle of milk into the cot of the couple’s other baby, aged 1 < months —but he threw it out again. The bandits then took Mrs Murphy into another room, bound and gagged her like her husband, and tied her hands with flex ripped from a lampstand. They got away in a powerful car—believed to be stolen. Mrs Murphy struggled for three-quarters of an hour—cutting a wrist and gashing a knee, before she could move far enough to raise the alarm.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 6
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172COUPLE GAGGED Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 6
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