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SIX HOLDUPS IN TWO WEEKS
Five Women and One Man Stopped at Night on Streets
[People’s Press, 26 December 1911]
Six holdups on the streets of Welland in the last two weeks have been reported to the police.
Two weeks ago account was given these columns of the assault of a young woman in town, and on the same night a woman from Fonthill was stopped by a ruffian on West main street on her way to the car. In the beginning of last week a girl was stopped on West Main street and roughly handled for a few seconds by an unknown man. She screamed and the assailant ran away.
On Thursday night a young woman was grabbed by the arms of a man near a new building on Hellems Ave. “Here you have to come into this building with me,” said her captor, when he grasped her. She fought herself free and escaped from him by screaming and running.
On the same evening a prominent woman of this town was accosted on North Main street and insulted by a man whom she had never seen before, but whose appearance she remembers plainly.
The third attempt at highway robbery on Thursday evening was made on a man on North Main street. He was carrying a parcel and when a man stepped out from a dark spot and requested his money, he refused to give it up. The highwayman was about to take it forcibly, but met with rebuff, when the civilian showed strength. This would-be-robber gave up the attempt and “beat it.”
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