AN AUDACIOUS THIEF.
■ ' -* ——♦ — — ROBS CHINAMAN WITH HIS OWN ' GUN. . By Telegranh-Press Association-Copyright ■ . ' (Rec. April 10, 0.20 aim.) ' Sydney, April 9. . ' A Sensational robbery is reported from Braidwood. A man entered a Chinaman's store..and asked to be shown a Winchester rifle, and when cartridges had been inserted he threatened to shoot tho proprietor and two assistants nnles? he was • igiven .£2O. '.He,was handed the contents of the till (=£l3), .and: departed, with a threat to kill anyone who told the police. : ' The same man visited another store and adopted the same tactics,'but was forced . to leave -without any loot ' ■ ' , He next stuck 'a horseman,' and, •• mounting, commandeered his animal, ■ and rode into the bush. ' Probationary Nonstable Brown followed the man, and after a, short struggle captiwed him and lodged him in the lock-up.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1720, 10 April 1913, Page 7
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132AN AUDACIOUS THIEF. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1720, 10 April 1913, Page 7
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