ARMED HOLD-UP
■ - DESPERATE STRUGGLE FOLLOWS. INTENSIVE POLICE SEARCH FOR ASSAILANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, This Day. Despite intensive efforts by the police, no arrest has yet been made in connection with a hold-up in Hastings on Tuesday night, when two young’ men assaulted Mr Albert Arthur Wilson, proprietor of a service station in> Kartimu Road. Mr Wilson suffered head injuries in a desperate struggle with his assailants, one df whom is alleged to have presented a revolver and another to have hit him on the head with a blunt instrument. The interior of the office was almost completely wrecked. Some cash was taken from the till, the two then eventually breaking free.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 8
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112ARMED HOLD-UP Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 8
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