Taxi Driver Robbed By Two Passengers
AUCKLAND, Oct. 7. A taxi driver was assaulted and robbed of £6 by two men in Auckland Domain at about 1 o-eloek this morhing.; The victim of the assauit was Owen Willetts, aged 26J married, of Mt. Albert. Mr Willetts was not injured aua the , ear was not damaged. • Two, men hailed Willetts' taxi. They b'oth'got into the back seat and directed) the , driver to take " thein through - the pdhiain td Parnell, and when .the car reached a lohely spot in' the . Doniaih be-' hind the Auckland Hospital one of thei n^en -ordered Wilietts to" stop the , car. | Wken the driver had siowed down, the p^ssenger immediateiy behind. thedriycr/s seat grasped Willetts, ,By ,. thcj throat, and the other pian reipqyed .tfce; ignition'key and threw jt , a,way. WhiW one assailant held him the other .went, through Willetts' pockets and removed j the money. After pushing him on to the; floor of the car the two* men made their escape in the darkness through the bushes. Although dazed Willetts found the key and drove to the Centrai Poliee Station. He latqr accompanied the police om a aight patrol in search of his assailants but no trace of them was found. •
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 October 1949, Page 6
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