Two masked men, one of whom brandished an axe, threatened 70-year-old Miss Gladys Yeomans, of Gade Avenue, Watford, as she stood in the kitchen of her home at lunchtime on Tuesday.
“Don’t scream,” they warned, “but I did scream – I screamed my head off,” she told a Watford Observer reporter.
Miss Yeomans, who lives alone with Timmy, her cat, said she screamed loudly three times. “I told them to get out and they ran off – it was all over in minutes.”
[From the Watford Observer of September 30, 1966]
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