ALLEGED STICKING-UP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 171, 10 July 1908, Page 2

ALLEGED STICKING-UP.

iSEXSATJUXAIi SI'OUY. I'OUL'Ji TDlifJi S'l lir:.MTlllli.\j'J). Uy Telegraph. I'ress Association. XeUoii, l.ast .\ignt. Considerable uneasiness lias been occasioned recently by several alleged fitieking-up eases reported I'rOin out Ivmg parts of t lie city. Yesterday a very Beiisational story related to tlie police by a liiim who said lie had been Mil up in VangnarH street late ou tlie previous evening by three men «lio l'e lieved Tirin of a small sum <:/ money. As »e_ was going, he said, lliey commenced tiring upon hini with a retolver, whereupon he drew a revolver he was earry3ii.| himself hui for some reason lie had not used il when attacked, and returned the lire as he relrciite ( | to u neighboring noiise. Th« shouting grearly alarmed Uie residents in the v icinit,- : . Atier investigation, tlie police doubt tile man's slory, a/ml consider that (lie holding up was an hallucination aim that all the shooting wa» done bv liinisell. Uther caul's eases win.di hear tlie stamp of genuineness have been reported, hi.-wever, in one instance a man Jviv mg i)een sonie.wTial badly knockou ""out oil Hritannia Heights. The niiini"'r of police on night duty lias been augmented and I lie more remote parts (If tlie city are being patrolled.