POSTAL OFFICIAL HELD UP
MASKED MAN WITH A BEVOLVER, \ By TsleirroDh.-Press Ancooiatlon. j Auckland, May 31. '■ In connection with tho robbery at the 'j Runcimai. Post Office, Arthur Whitburn, | aged 17, states that ho locked tho office .] at 5.30 p.m., and when ridinc home on. ■ j his bicycle a masked man tolled him, l up, producing a revolver and demanding j tho keys of the Post Office. Tho lad j gavo up tho keys, and then raised an ] »larm, but when neighbours reached tho Post Office they found the cashbox -j broken open, and no sign of the thief.-. i Next morning a stolen bicycle was found in tho goreo at Papakura. A stolen. ! choqno was found in Takaiiini Road ) yesterday. The booty comprised ,£3O In i cash, and ,£27 in cheques. ' ' i [On Friday night a postal official at Bimciman was accosted by a lnan with' j a revolver, who seized a suni of money, j look tho postman's "bicycle, and row. ] away.] .-,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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164POSTAL OFFICIAL HELD UP Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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