"STICKING-UP" CASES IN NELSON.
A SENSATIONAL STORY.
BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. NELSON, July 9. Considerable uneasiness has been occasioned recently by several alleged sticking-up cases reported from outlying parts of the city. Yesterday a very sensational story was related to the police by a man who said he had been "held up" in Vanguard street late on the previous evening by three men, who relieved him of a small sum of money. As l-.e was going a\vay r he said, they commenced firing upon him with a revolver, whereupon ho drew a revolver lie was carrying himself, but which for some reason he had not uaed when attacked, and returned the fire as he was retiring to a neighbouring house. The shooting greatly alarmed the residents in the vicinrty. After investigation the police doubt the man's story, and consider that the "holding up" was a hallucination, and that all the shooting was done by himself. Other case 3 bearing the stamp of genuineness have been reported, however, in one instance a man having been somewhat badly knocked about on Britannia heights. The number of police on night duty has been augmented, ard the more remote parts of the city are being patrolled.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 10 July 1908, Page 5
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202"STICKING-UP" CASES IN NELSON. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9138, 10 July 1908, Page 5
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