ALLEGED STICKING-UP CASES At NELSON.
» ... ' A SENSATIONAL STORY. . (BY TELEOBATn—ritESS ASSOCIATION.) Nelson, July 9. Considerable uneasiness lias been occasioned recently by several alleged sticking-up cases reported from outlying parts of tho city. Yesterday a very sensational story was related to the police by a man who said ho had been held up in Vanguard Street lato on tho previous evening by three- men, who relieved him of a small sum of money. As lie was going away, he said, thoy commenced firing upon him with a revolver, whereupon ho drew a revolver ho was carrying himself, but which for some reason ho had not used when attacked, and returned tho firo as ho retreated to a neighbouring house. Tho shooting groatly alahncd tho residents in tho vicinity. After investigation the police doubt the man's story, and consider that tho holdingup was an hallucination, and that all'the shooting was done by himself. Other cases which bear tho stamp of genuincuoss have been reported, howovcr, in ono instance a man having been somewhat-badly knocked about on Britannia Heights. Tho numbor of police on night duty has been augmented,' and tho mora remote parts of tho city aro being patrolled.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 6
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197ALLEGED STICKING-UP CASES At NELSON. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 6
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