A MASKED MARAUDER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3066, 10 December 1908, Page 5

A MASKED MARAUDER.

STICKING-UP CASE AT EKETAHUNA. MAN WITH TWO REVOLVERS. I AN ARREST. By Telegraph—Press Association. EKETAHUNA, December 9. A sticking-up case occurred at Nireaha last night. Mr Dowden, manager of the Co-operative Store, and two directors of the company, were in the sitting-room, when a man with his face covered by a mask CPtered with a revolver in each hand and ordered Mr Dowden, who was nearest the door, to hold up his hands. Dowden approached the man—who threatened to shoot —and knocked the revolver aside. The man then reL'eatei to the kitchen, and Dowden, asking one of the others to guard the door, rang up the police in Eketahuna. While he was doing so the man decamped. Constable Grey went out, and this rooming arrested a young man, about 23 years of age, named Alwood. In Eketahuna Alwood was formally charged, before Mr Herbert, J.P., this morning, and remanded till the 16th instant, bail being allowed accused, in £SO, and two sureties of £7O, and one of £l5O.