Bundle Of Notes Lifted And No Clue Left

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1949, Page 3

Bundle Of Notes Lifted And No Clue Left

; DUNEDIN, July 2$., t In the most audacious robbery 'tcoSamitted in Dunedin for a long time, . a 1 bundle off. bank. uotes^mountilig. to ijlOO, was en'atched Ttonj. tte till ofvthe ^rardons Gj6roeri;bran^h%f ?$he Duigieain Savin^s Ba'nfe kBo^t 1'6 p'Jdloek pn Wcdiiesday mornnig. The person or persor.s_ re8ponsible were apparently able to g&t' away with .their- loot without leavixig anything in the nature pf a' clue behind. DetectiveS; were on ■ the scene a t'ew minutes after the note» were fouhd to be missing but no arrest has y'et been made. - • - : '

For most of the day two tellers are at work in the public part of the building and it is an extremely rare oecurrence fPr ' "bdfh. ' to be absen't. ' On Wednesday morning 'the trhief was able to time " his" vrsit* during "a brief period when both were away; . This- could. 1 have been only a matter of secop^e.' • •Th"pugh;.thej,haurpf £100,. r'epresentpdt ,a good,' niornin^'s work on 'the part of 3the f ' qustomery ' he , might.-efisily have* ; ^elpe^*E'i^seljf t.6„ a...buqUe or twov of inotes of .much ' Jugtier denoniinatibns.. ple ;cer taih^^^had • tli eni within hi . reach bepaned heridistnrFcdy; sevAia] ^ lhlndh'A1 JCjk wasThis' fact that provided thq bnly clue *to t'he, tplleT .w;bpn she Yeturned. -He., had a hasty abflit 'made.-an'd- f oiind that olie of -the'bun'dles Was misaiug. '' .'The* whoje , -episode- 'proj/ably. only ■occupied A few* Second's. HaVing ^seizied Lhe of j theibubdlesy ^hfe; thief prpbably "cpnsi^ered. ;hi8' luck 'cpuld1 ppt iiold for many mqrp seponds, an.d' certaiiily not lohg e'nough for him*- to get away with -anything more. . . .One of tlle difliculties ' f'acing the police will be; t'he; ' fact that' the notes were • of sma.ll dajiourination. Ha'l * larger ones'been ihvolvcd, the thief might have llfid' much mpre difficulty in esc'aping detection. ' '