ROBBERY UNDER ARMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1943, Page 3

ROBBERY UNDER ARMS

ANOTHER AUCKLAND HOLD-UP. SECOND CHINESE VICTIM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 4. Another armed hold-up on Friday night, in which two men demanded money by menaces from a Chinese who was! threatened at his home by a man holding a loaded revolver, is being investigated by the Auckland police. The incident occurred at the home of Fong Kui, 238 Balmoral Road, Sandringham, at 11.10 p.m., 50 minutes before the hold-up at the shop in Remuera. Fong Kui was roused by men knocking at the back door, which he opened and they walked in. One was dressed in a khaki uniform and the other, who had the revolver, was in civilian clothes. They demanded money. Kui turned out his pockets and placed the contents 16s on the table. Then he called out to his wife, but they threatened to shoot her if she came. Kui’s son, aged 10, came out of a bedroom, and they were both told to stand up against the wall by a man who said: “I am going to finish you off. You’ll know us again.” The men did not take the money, but stole a radio set and an overcoat. They then jumped into a parked car and disappeared.