ARMED ROBBERY

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1947, Page 5

ARMED ROBBERY

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PALMERSTON N., May 2, ' The police. last .mgbt weie m--vestigatiUg. the story of an elderl^ Wb'fua-fi, Mrs. K. Sutheriancl, of 9' ^dtith Stre'et, Palmerston Nort'fi,who elaimed that she had be'eh held up at revolver point in her flat,. robbed of- a sun of mohey, theh tied up in a chair ancl gag-ged before the intruder made' his get--. away,' % - Mfs. Sutherland Iives in one df. a gronp of three- flats. Normally llei- nepheW resides there With he£ biit last mght he was away'ftom home. " / - Aceording to Mrs. Suthetlaud's story riie was sitting down to hef evening meal jiist befoTe 7 p.m. when a man ehtered the door aitd pointed a shiny revolver at her. He demanded to kttoW where she kept her money. She told him it was. in the lifing room ' arid. he Itook possession of her prirse contaifiing £6 or £7. The room Was iri darkness, she said, and she was unable to get a good look at the man's featnres, Having poeketed the purse, the intruder order ed Mrs. Stitherland into a chair. He picked up sOme pieces of cloth arid tied her arms to .the sides of the chair arid gagged her mouth with portinn of \ pair of pyjamas. The man then clecampod. Mrs. Sutherland made a noise on the floor with her feet and at traeted the. attention of the o6eu--pants of the next flat who canre in and released Mrs. Sufherlaiid, who appearod to be snffcring con- , siderahly from shock. . .