AUDACIOUS ASSAULT
STOREKEEPER ROBBED IN THE STREET Dominion Special. Auckland. November 20. An audacious assault and robbery was perpetrated at Grey Lynn last night, the victim being Alfred Bryan, a storekeeper of Drvden Street. Bryan had closed his shop and shortly afterwards was walking along Allan Street carrying his day’s cash takings in a brief bag when a stranger suddenly sprang upon him, knocked him down, and decamped with the bag. The attack was so. swift that Bryan could not identify his assailant, but it is thought that it was someone conversant with his movements and who knew that at -that hour on Friday night he would be on his way to bis home in Richmond Avenue, where Bryan also has a store, taking with him the cash' from the Dryden Street shop. The robber got away with money estimated to be between £lO and £l2.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 49, 22 November 1926, Page 8
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146AUDACIOUS ASSAULT Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 49, 22 November 1926, Page 8
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