DARING HOLD-UP
MASKED MAN AT BALCLUTHA.
THEFT AT POINT OF REVOLVER. (Per. Press Association — Copyright .) DUNEDIN, December 26. A daring hold-up occurred at Balclutha on Saturday’ night about ten o’clock when the shops were at the busiest period. A masked man entered the premises of Guest and Sons, and. approaching the cashier, Grace Cameron, demanded “hands up!” at the point of a revolver. Pie extracted a sum estimated at from £3O to £4O from the cash register, and decamped without being identified.
The whole affair, occupied only a few seconds. Miss Cameron, at first thought!- ,it was a member of the Guest family playing a joke, and she leaned forward and removed the intruder’s cap. The robber was a tall man, fair, land a long black scarf, with two slits for the eyeholes, formed his mask.
The money stolen represented only a portion of the contents of the register, which contained several hundred pounds. The robber left his hat behind, which should afford a valuable clue.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19321228.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1932, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
166DARING HOLD-UP Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1932, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in