SUSPECTED HOLD-UP
Dilemma of Taxi-driver By Telegraph.—Press Association. Greymouth, January 26. A hold-up was attempted at 3.30 o’clock yesterday morning on a lonely road beside the Grey River near Taylorville. A taxi driven by Leslie Hallinan was taking home a passenger when the driver noticed a dark object on the roadside, but did not stop. Upon returning, ho\vever, he met a barricade of timber, also a stone weighing about 561 b. When he pulled up he heard footsteps approaching behind. To try and circumvent the obstacle would have precipitated the taxi into the river, so . Hallinan accelerated and cleared the barricade with no more damage than a broken spring.
A police search after daybreak failed to find any vestige of the barricade.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 11
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122SUSPECTED HOLD-UP Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 100, 22 January 1935, Page 11
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