PAY CLERK ATTACKED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1939, Page 6

PAY CLERK ATTACKED

DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. TWO MEN ARRESTED ON TRAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A daring attempt at robbery with violence was made at the M.L.C. building in course of construction at the corner of Hunter Street and Lambton Quay about 4.15 p.m. yesterday. A pay clerk, Mr William Parr, was carrying the wages of 50 men. amounting to about £250. when he was attacked by two men. one of whom struck him a severe blow on the face. The bag was then snatched from Mr Parr and the assailants were about to make oil’ when two workmen, hearing a cry for help, rushed to Mr Parr’s assistance. After a struggle they wrested the bag from one of the '’Packers, who then made off with his companion. Smart work by the police resulted in two men, who are alleged to have been implicated in the attempted robbery, being arrested as they were about to leave by the Limited express three hours after the attack took place. The money was the property of Mr Angus, one of the contractors for the erection of the building, who has an office in a building in Hunter Street, adjoining the M.L.C. building. The wages were made up in this office and the pay clerk collected the money the"' ' a r - j'l’t stepped on to the g» ’ L-C- building u ——was