BANDITS GRAB £8000

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 57, 2 December 1946, Page 3

BANDITS GRAB £BOOO

DUBLIN BANK HOLD-UP CHASE THROUGH CITY Three raiders with a tommy-gun and two revolvers held up clerks and customers in a Dublin bank and drove awa,y with more than £BOOO. They cut the telephone wire with a pistol shot before running out to the 24'h.p. taxi they had commandeered. A fourth man was. at the wheel.

Then there was a chase through the city. Within a hour ione of the bandits was captured—and so was an attache case packed with stolen notes. It was 2.55 p.m., just before the closing hour, when the three men entered the Drujzicondra branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank. Half a dozen customers, including three corporation rent-collectors, were making their deposits.

“Stick up your Hands!” one of the raiders said. The man with a' tommy gun closed the doors and remained on guard while the others relieved the customers of their cash. One went behind the counter and stuffed an attache case with Treasury notes. • Police cars took up the chase. When the hunted ,car was abandoned the pursuit continued on foot, and- one of the raiders was captured as he ran along the Great Northern railway line. He had the attache case, containing more than £BOOO in notes.