ROBBERY UNDER ARMS
< —• ■ A RESOUKCEFUL WIFE . 'Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8 a.in.) SYDNEY, October 2. Armed men held up an employee of a taxi cab depot at Darlinghimst to-day, and stole £(!. There was a second "hold-up to-night at Darlingliurst. Three young men entered a cake shop and demanded £509 /from Alexander Shearer, whose wife in the next room, overhearing the argument, slipped out the back with the intention of giving,the alarm. She reached the front of the shop just in time to see one man leaving. She seized him. The husband rushed.to her aid, and closed with, the second man. Three shots were fired, hut nobody was hurt. A crowd gathered, but were afraid to help Shearer and his wife, who was compelled to release their grip of the bandits, all of whom escaped, having secured £4 from the cash regist-
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1930, Page 3
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