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s WANTED FOR ARMED ROBBERY of Route 27s Butcher Shop, Acton, Mass., on 1-10-74; Whites male, 45/ 50 years, 145-150 lbs., brown hairi turning grey, cut short, clean shaven, 3/ 4 lengthj blue coat, wore band-aid right cheek, no weaponshown. $97.00 in small bills taken.f ACTON — Route 27 Butcher 5 Shoppe was the latest of the : area food stores to fall prey to » armed robbery. On Thursday » evening, January 10, at ap-1 proximately 8:10 p.m., a white male between 45 and 50 entered the Butcher Shoppe and asked meat man Al Saunders for a pack of cigarettes. He paid for the cigarettes and asked Saunders to put them in a paper bag. Then, with his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun, the man told Saunders to put all of the cash from the register into the bag. Then he told Saunders to turn around and he left.The man was described by Saunders as being a white male between 45 and 50 years old, 5' 6 tall, with light brown hair that was turning gray. The robber wore a light blue 3/ 4 Mackinaw style coat, and he had a band-aid on his right cheek.Saunders said the man used no crude or rough language and spoke only in normal conversational tones. Everything happened so fast and so quietly that another Butcher Shoppe employee, Tony Galluzzo, who was working in the back room heard or noticed nothing unusual while the man was in the store.The robber made off with approximately $100 in ones, fives and tens. It is not known how he made his getaway. Saunders said there was no car in the parking lot in front of the store.When people at the Acton Bowladrome near the Butcher Shoppe saw the composite drawing of the robber, they said they had seen him before in the bowling alley, but always in the company of another man.The Acton Police Department said it received the call from the Butcher Shoppe at 8:14 p.m. Saunders said the police were there within a very short time. It seemed like I just called them, and they were coming in the front door; it couldn't have been anymore than three minutes,” he said.Saunders also told the police that at no time did he actually see a gun. ‘‘But he kept his hand in his pocket the whole time as though he had a gun.” said Saunders.The January lu robbery of the Butcher Shoppe was the third robbery of an area food store in a little more than a month. Stop and Shop Supermarket on Route 2 was robbed at gunpoint by two white males who locked the employees in a closet and made off with an undetermined amount of cash.On New Year 's Eve a husky 5' 10” gunman held up Donelan employees Helen Morrison and Robert Landeau as they were leaving the market on Main Street in South Acton at closing time. Wearing a ski mask, the gunman took $100 from the employees.The burglar at Donelan s wasthe only one to wear any type of disguise. The other men all wore regular street clothes.Spokesmen at the police department said there is a direct correlation between the rising rate of unemployment, almost always the high cost of living and the number of armed robberies that occur. As the former two rise, so does the latter.All of the robberies are under investigation by the Acton Police Department.
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Acton Assabet Valley Beacon
Acton, Massachusetts, US
Thu, Jan 17, 1974
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