Old news from Armidale and New England

Saturday 13 June 1936, The Sydney Morning Herald

MOTORIST HELD-UP.

Police throughout the north-west of the State are searching for two armed men who are believed to have been responsible for a series of robberies and attempted robberies in the area within recent weeks.

A cordon has now been drawn round the Inverell district, owing to a report received from William Asimus, a resident of Bukkulla, who told the police that he had been stopped near his home on Wednesday night, and had been robbed of £7/15/.

Asimus said that he was driving his car when a man who had been standing on the side of the road held up his hand. Thinking that the man wanted a lift, he stopped the car, and the man promptly jumped on the running board, presented a revolver, and said, “Put them up.” He put up his hands, and the man then made him hand over his money. He noticed a second man on the side of the road.

Police believe the thieves may be the same men who recently held up people in Taree and Grafton.