THUGS ROB GIRL

Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1929, Page 8

THUGS ROB GIRL

oNDJiIt EYES OF HER GUARD. While armed guards patrolled the doorway of an American .Railway Express Company transier station directly across the street., a girl cashier and a chauffeur employed by Ala ecu, Inc., of 7)7, West Tnirty-tbird Street, Asew York, were held up and robbed of the firm’s £obo pay roll as they pulled up to the curb in front of the company’s quarters. The liohl-up was effected by two young men, who stepped into a waiting car driven by a third until and whirled oil down 'lentil Avenue be'lure an alarm could be raised. The cashier, Lillian Barlow, and the riegf'o chauffeur. Spurgeon Bar,ton, were returning from their regular weekly tip to the Chase National Bank branch at Fifth Avenue and Twentythird Street, with the pay roll. As their car came to a stop in I rout ol the office two youths’ stepped up, cov ered them with revolvers, told them fo keep quiet, and took the pay roll. After ulteiing another warning they ran to a parked ear in which the third man sat waiting and were off.

'l'liij express company guards to'd the police of the West Tliirtioth St reel stiitioii that the rob hors must Imvo operated will: studied nonchalance since they had noticed nothing in any wny suspicious all morning.