ROBBERY ENDER ARMS
FOREIGN CLUBS RAIDED IN MELBOURNE
MONEY COLLECTED AT PISTOL POINT. DETECTIVES LATER ARREST TWO MEN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. MELBOURNE. July 10.. After being lined against a wall in a foreign club in the city early on Sunday morning, 10 men and women wete forced at the point of the pistol by five men to put their money in a hat whicn a bandit passed among them. Five men burst into the club and two of them presented pistols and ordered all present to raise their hands. Two men guarded the door, and two armed men escorted the fifth bandit around the room demanding that “donations" be put into a hat. One man who resisted was struck on the nose with the butt of the pistol, his nose being fractured. Another man who said he had no money was struck on the neck as the bandits took £1 from his pocket. After going round, the thieves escaped up Elizabeth Street. Three hours earlier three men had entered another foreign club in Russell Street, forced the proprietor against a wall, and stole £2 14s.
About 9 o’clock yesterday morning detectives raided a third foreign club and arrested two men. who are charged with robbery under arms.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1939, Page 5
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