The Archive · 1896

DARING ROBBERY

Only a few nights ago a small band of robbers, six in number, about dusk attacked 'a money shop on the main street, outside the city on the north bank. After wounding women, they secured a considerable amount of silver, with which they succeeded in making off. The shop which they plunder-correspondent's house. The report of the ed is only a hundred as ym your gun-firing was heard very distinctly, but of course no one surmised the cause. A neighbour, who heard the shouting in the money shop and thought it simply a quarrel, went to the door to enquire the cause of the disturbance, and received a gunshot wound in the leg for his pains. After that, the neighbours all prudently withdrew from the scene, and the departing robbers had unmolested right of way. No arrests have yet been made,

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