ROBBERY IN TRAM.

Shannon News, 5 January 1923, Page 3

ROBBERY IN TRAM.

PICTURE SHOW TAKINGS TAKEN. A .startling experience belell John Robertson, aged 30, picture show manager, ai Cremorne, recently, say& a Sydney paper. Mr -Robertson is temporarily managing, the Cremorne pictures. At about 10 p.m. lie was in a tram in Cremorne, returning to the city on his way home. He had with him a bag containing £l7 —the night’s takings of the show. There were two or three people seated in the back compartment of tlie car. As it*neared Murdoch Street a man in the car suddenly drew from Ills pocket a piece ot sandstone', weighing about Mb, and struck Mr Robertson a violent blow on the left side ol' the head with it, partly si mining him. He then seized the bag containing ihe money, made a flying leap off the moving tram, and ran away.

There was considerable excitement on the tram. One or two women screamed, and a man made an unsuccessful attempt to catch the flying thief as lie passed. The car was stopped, and Mr Robertson was assisted to Dr. Thompson’s surgery, where two stitches were inserted in the wound in his head.

This is the second case reported within a. week of picture show takings being stolen. A few days before Miss Margaret. Howe, of Annandale Street, Annandale Street, sister of the proprietor of the Coliseum Picture Show, Waterloo, was waiting for a tram in Boundary Street, Alexandria, when she was rushed by three men. One snatched her handbag, containing £l2, the night’s takings of the picture show, and they ran away.