Post office robbed

Press, 18 April 1979, Page 6

Post office robbed

PA Auckland “I was sure he was going to shoot me. I remember looking at the end of his gun and thinking how big the barrels were,” said a post office clerk, Mrs Robvn Brady, aged 22. yesterday. She was recalling the moment about 4 p.m. yesterday when two masked men held her up and found only $7O in the til] behind the counter at the White Swan Road post office, Mount Roskill, in Auckland. “He said to me: ‘Where’s I the rest?’ I said: ‘That’s all there is, honestly.’ He said:' ‘Your’re lying’ and pushed; his gun even closer to me. I was petrified. I was sure he was going to shoot me.” Minutes after the robbery, J a schoolgirl, Carolyn Jubb.i aged 15, of Mount Roskill.. recounted her memory of ihe

I "incident and her encounter .with one of the gunmen. ;[ It was a minute or so be■fore Carolyn was due to i , start work at her 4 p.m.-to-5 ■p.m. after-school job in a: : bakery, next door to the post i office. She was standing on the: • i footpath with her sister, Bev-' ■ erley, aged 13, and brother] ! Kevin, aged eight, when they I i‘ saw tw-o masked men carry- [ ing shotguns run into ihe, post office. “They pulled up in a white [ i car outside and ran into the[ | post office carrying guns. One ■ had a purple mask, the other [ I was wearing a green one,” | • she said. She looked inside! but one of the men turned' round and told her to leave.] “He was standing there] (With a gun. and I was scared.; , j I ran back into the shop and; shut the door. A minute or! two later we saw them run

-•out of the post office and • jump back into their car, then • ‘they took off. We didn’t get >I a chance to take the num- > I ber,” said Carolyn. ii Last evening, Mrs Brady [ said that when the men [realised how little money • • there was in the till the taller [gunman pushed a stool at •| her, then grabbed her handjbag. Both robbers then ran [outside. ii The total taken was $3OO. . Apart from the $7O in the • till Mrs Brady’s handbag had i: $230 — last week’s wages [which she had meant to bank ■‘yesterday. The police discovered the : I white Morris Oxford car used ;in the raid parked in Mount j Albert. They said it was not J stolen. Detective Inspector ,; G. F. Hugglestone said the police knew who they were ■! looking for and expected an i i early arrest.