ARMED MAN IN MASK.
The. latest 0 f several recent outrages by bandits in the distrut of B-rgoss hill, Siibsax, is the holding up ol two women on a lonely road at night by a imasked man with a revolver and an elect,'ic torch. Mi-s Esther Holman, cf Lower Church Hoad, Burgess Hill, one of the women. «a:d: —
“] was walking to Hassock r, f- mand had readied a desolate stretch of road when a man jumped from the hedge, stood in front of me Mid shone a light in my face. He wove a mask, which had eye slits, and paint*d a small revolver at me. I struck out with my umbrella to try and knock the revolver away. “Apparently he Im.nd someone else coining from behind, for he darted away. I ran on and reached the station, where there was another woman, very distress* d, who told me that she hail had a similar experience near the same spot only a few minutes previously.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 3
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165ARMED MAN IN MASK. Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 3
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