IMPUDENT ROBBERY.
(Per Proas Association.) Invercargill, last night. Two firemen.on the s.s. Rakaia visited an hotel at tho Bluff at noon to-day, and appropriated two bags belooging to a commercial traveller. These they carried across the street to tho-station, got into a van on a siding, and commenced to ransack them ; they had been noticed by two residents, who, suspecting all was not right, slipped quietly over, and each closed a door of the van. There were earnest adjurations from the oapturod to be let out, but that was not permitted till the police arrived and locked them up.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1407, 18 March 1905, Page 3
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99IMPUDENT ROBBERY. Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1407, 18 March 1905, Page 3
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