HELD UP BY MASKED MEN.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 July 1919, Page 5

HELD UP BY MASKED MEN.

DARING DUBLIN OUTRALES,

Two particularly daring outrages were committea in Dublin recently, the victim in each being a member of the detective division of the Metropolitan Police. l .

Af a late hour a party of men \v‘ez/11“ ing women’s veils and c:=.rrying 1-0--volvers V knocked at DetectiveSergéant Ha_lley’s house in Norfolk Road. The sergeant was out. and the men pushed their way in and held up the inmates. When the sergeant arrived a sentry presented a revolver. and cried “Hands upl” The sergeant whipped out "a revolver, crying,“Hands up, yourself!” He was afraid to fire, as some of his family were directly in the line of fire_ The 5011' t.r.s' immediately lowered‘ his revolver and ‘bolted down the street. ‘ Me§nwhile the raiders in the house cSG3I-“*6-

In the secpnd case, _ Detective omcor O’Brien was r_et.ul'ning to hi's home in Glngariffe Parade. when he Was held up six armed adn fliéguised meli He was dragged into a lane, ‘where 110 was searched, after which his a,ssa,ila'nts bound ‘him hinfl and foot and then fled. - " '