ASSAULT & ROBBERY
SENSATIONAL HOLD-UP NEAR WHAKATANE GIRL ASSISTS TWO MEN TO ACCOST VICTIM By Telegraph.—Press Association, WHAKATANE, April 9. A sensational hold-up took place at Edgecumbe at about midnight last night. The accountant of the Rangitaiki Dairy Company, Mr K. Gray, while on his way home at 11 o'clock, was accosted by a girl, who asked him to assist in catching her horse, which she said had broken away when she was going through a gate. Two men sprang out and seized Mr Gray and gagged and bound him with a rope to a tree in a paddock. They took his keys and went to the factory office, leaving the girl in charge of the captive. The men opened the strongroom, but apparently failed to recognise a number of pay envelopes which had been deposited in the safe the previous day. Evidently securing nothing of value from the safe, they returned to the paddock and searched Mr Gray’s pockets, from which they took £4 10s and then partially released him. The Whakatane police were notified at 3 a.m. and went to Edgecumbe to investigate.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 8
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184ASSAULT & ROBBERY Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1938, Page 8
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