LINE PATH, CORENTYNE – Bandits struck again on the Corentyne. This time, three knife wielding robbers held up a Line Path shop-keeper and allegedly relieved the family of some $1.2 million on Sunday night.The victims, 62-year-old Elaine Rambally and her husband, Fredrick Rambally, of Lot 59 Line Path ‘D’ Corriverton,Cheap Jerseys From China, reported the matter to police early yesterday, since the bandits had severed their telephone line during the robbery.According to Elaine Rambally, called ‘Eileen’, about 22:00 hours on Sunday just as her husband, Fredrick, was about to close the business for the night “Two guys come in. They come to ask for Bristol cigarette. I told them I don’t have any. They ask me for a Carib beer and a Mackeson. I told them I don’t sell Carib or Mackeson, that I only sell Banks DIH products, and I don’t have anything cold because it is time to close off.”Mrs. Rambally added that the men told her they did not want to consume Banko wine since it gives them a headache. “They tell me I don’t want to sell them and I told them I only have a couple of cold Premium beer.“They asked for three and paid $1,000. By the time that, I see one of the men on my husband’s back. I thought my husband had lift him and brought him in.”With that her husband called on her to open the door leading to the inner portion of the business place. She complied and then saw the third unfamiliar person. It then dawned on her that the strangers were up to no good. “Right away I realize them is thief man. I didn’t see the face of the third one. But one of them wear a white long sleeve shirt and he was (thin). The other one had a little body and had on a green long sleeve jersey with a toque.”The business place is situated on the lower flat of the two bedroom building. The family also owns another building at the back of the yard, which is used as a storeroom. The bandits entered the shop and held a knife to her husband’s throat. One of the robbers went to the upper floor where the family resides.Another bandit ordered the shopkeeper to hand over all the riches in her possession, “I give him all the money that was there. Is a lot of money; is more than $600,000 was in the shop. I had to pay Banks DIH today (Monday) plus I had more money.”After they collected the first set of money, one of the men carried her upstairs, took off the lights, and asked for the gold and more money.Mrs. Rambally said that she glanced over her shoulder and saw the other two intruders ransacking a bedroom. “I told him I have money in the wardrobe, but the key is downstairs in the bucket where he put all the money just now.”The robber took her to the lower floor, collected the key and returned upstairs. “He continue asking me for gold and money. I told him I don’t have any gold because I give all my gold to my children. I only have this earring on my ears. He feel it and say it was too small and leave it. I opened the wardrobe and handed him more money – $282,000 which was my husband’s pension money. Me husband saved his money to paint back our house and cover our chairs, because my 10-month old grandson is coming from America in November.”She explained that her husband was a former employee of the Guyana Sugar Corporation and collects a $45,000 monthly pension. “He get old age pension plus $6,000 every week from the Estate.”The businesswoman recalled that she also had an additional sum of money in the wardrobe which the men found after they emptied the clothing. “This was my money; I wanted to go out the country for five days so I had the $300,000 for me. That was my pension money that I put up.”The bandits then removed the curtain rods and tied the couple. “I thought they were going to beat me with the rod because I never get lashes before. My husband never beat me and my parents never beat me! They tied my hands and foot and they also tied my husband hands and feet. They told us not to make any sound or else they will come upstairs and kill us. All the time they keep asking me for a cell phone but I don’t have a cell phone! What would I do with a cell phone?”About ten minutes later, her husband realized then the home invaders had departed. The couple untied themselves and went to the lower floor. “The doors for the shop was still open, the shop light was still on, but the downstairs light they cut it off. They did cut off the upstairs light and the phone line.”Moments later Elaine Rambally shouted for her neighbours and one responded. Yesterday, the family reported the matter to the Springlands Police. “The police came with me right away, and there is a police woman taking statements from me right now.”This is the first time Elaine Rambally and her husband have experienced such an ordeal, “This is the first time they come to me for money like this. The other times they just cleanout the shop and we don’t know till we wake up.” (Melissa Johnson)作者: fuxue9u49 時間: 2018-9-15 17:02 標題: Belstaff Maldon Jackor 3105Moncler Untuvatakki NaisetMän Vests
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He hastened to the capital, but only reached it just before communication with Russia had been interrupted. There was time to receive only a few telegrams from St. Petersburg and Moscow, and with difficulty to answer them before the wire was cut. Irkutsk was isolated from the rest of the world.
The Grand Duke had now only to prepare for resistance, and this he did with that determination and coolness of which, under other circumstances, he had given incontestable proofs. The Accessories news of the taking of Ichim, Omsk, and Tomsk, successively reached Irkutsk. It was necessary at any price to save the capital of Siberia. Reinforcements could not be expected for some Canada Goose Herr time. The few Canada Goose Ontario Parka troops scattered about in the provinces of Siberia could not arrive in sufficiently large numbers to arrest the progress of the Tartar columns. Since therefore it was impossible for Irkutsk to escape attack, the most important thing to be done was to put the town in a state to sustain a siege of some duration.
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The crowded crater was fainting. The life was going out of the City — its magnetic life, draining into the shaft of green fire.
Duller grew the Metal Emperor’s glories.
Fourteen minutes.
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Fifteen minutes.
I watched the tentacles of the Keeper grope over the tablet. Abruptly the flaming pyramid darkened — WENT OUT.
The radiant pillar hurtled upward like a thunder-bolt; vanished in space.
Before us stood the mount of cones, shrunken to a sixth of its former size.
Sixteen minutes.
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Seventeen minutes.
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Twenty minutes — subconsciously I had gone on counting — twenty minutes —
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“Is it a berlin?”
“No, a telga.”
“How many travelers?”
“Two.”
“And they are going fast?”
“Eagles!”
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For twenty years Pere Merlier had been mayor of Rocreuse. He was esteemed for the fortune he had acquired. His wealth was estimated at something like eighty thousand francs, amassed sou by sou. When he married Madeleine Guillard, who brought him the mill as her dowry, he possessed only his two arms. But Madeleine never repented of her choice, so briskly did he manage the business. Now his wife was dead, and he remained a widower with his daughter Francoise. Certainly he might have rested, allowed the mill wheel to slumber in the moss, but that would have been too dull for him, and in his eyes the building would have seemed dead. He toiled on for pleasure.
Pere Merlier was a tall old man with a long, still face, who never laughed but who possessed, notwithstanding, a very galinks:
well, that Canada Goose Mountaineer Jackor sometimes, in her ardors of renunciation, she thought she ought to deny herself the frequent indulgence in it.
You may see her now, as she walks down the favorite turning and enters the Deeps by a narrow path through a group of Scotch firs, her tall figure and old lavender gown visible through an hereditary black silk shawl of some wide-meshed net-like material; and now she is sure of being unseen she takes off her bonnet and ties it Belstaff Knockhill Jackor over her arm. One would certainly suppose her to be farther on in life than her seventeenth year — perhaps because of the slow resigned sadness of the glance from which all search and unrest seem to have departed; perhaps because her broad-chested figure has the mould of early womanhood. Youth and health have withstood well the involuntary and voluntary hardships of her lot, and the nights in which she has lain Ralph Lauren Halsduk on the hard floor for a penance have left no obvious trace; the eyes are liquid, the brown cheek is firm and round, the full lips are red. With her dark coloring and jet crown Moncler Kengät surmounting her tall figure, she seems to have a sort of kinship with the grand Scotch firs, at which she is looking up as if she loved them well. Yet one has a sense of uneasiness in looking at her Piumini Moncler Vendita — a sense of opposing elements, of which a fierce collision is imminent; surely there is a hushed expression, such as one often sees in older faces under borderless caps, out of keeping with the resistant youth, which one expects to flash out in a sudden, passionate glance, that will dissipate all the quietude, like a damp fire leaping out again when all seemed safe.
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“You startled me,” she said, smiling faintly; “I never meet any one here. How came you to be walking here? Did you come to meet me?”
It was impossible not to perceive that Maggie felt herself a child again.
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