ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP
I Not Prepared To Insist I 4trom Our Own Reporter, ’ GREYMOUTH. March 8. j Between 12.30 a.m. and 12.45 la.m. on Sunday a man entered the garage of Kennedy Bros., at the intersection of Guinness, William and Boundary streets, Greymouth, and asked the operator for the firm’s taxi cabs, Mrs J. M. Kennedy, for petrol. Mrs Kennedy, who was alone in the office, said she could not leave it to get petrol from the bowsers. The man, who is of medium height, repeated his demand, at the same time producing a gun which in the semidarkness of the passageway. Mrs Kennedy took to be a pistol. Mrs Kennedy told the stranger to leave the premises or she would hit him on the head with a stick. He immediately fled.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 3
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