WELLINGTON HOLD-UP

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 158, 22 July 1937, Page 15

WELLINGTON HOLD-UP

—Press Association.)

Remarkable Courage of Shopkeeper

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, Last Night. Remarkable coolncss and courage rfere shown by a Wellington woman, Mrs. M. J. Walton, when a well-dressed masked man entered her confectionery sliop in Molesworth street on Tuesday night and at the point of a revolver Iwico commandod her to open the till, backing up the second comniand with a hhreat to shoot. She refuscd. Ai'ter a battle of wills the disconifited wouldbe robbcr pocketed his revolver and left.Sho said she was alone in the dining 1001a behind the shop when interviewed to- night. Sho saw tho man by the open loor when sho entered tho shop. He .ointed tho revolver at her. Half his ,'caturcs were concoajed by a scarf. He .icu'red her to open the till but she I'cfused. The second tinie he threateneo .0 shoot her but she was undismayed. "I told ihim I wapn't t'rightened and hat lie could shoot," snc said. "l ^ui'J I was a widow. God Avas m/ niu her and my protector. I had :i fcar. "He lookcd hard at me for a moment or two and suddenly droppcd his hoad and i)ccketcd the revolver. 'Well, you're the luavest woniqn I'vo met. V'111 liioroughlv luv'rai.ied of mysel^' hc 1 said, aud lei'fc the ghpp,"._^ "