DARING HOLD UP IN SYDNEY

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2173, 11 June 1914, Page 5

DARING HOLD UP IN SYDNEY

IN .BROAD DAYLIGHT

PAY CLERK ROBBED OF . £2309 BY MASKED MOTOR BANDIT By Telegraph—Pries A4sCT4ano«- Cspyrifflit (U(M-. »f;mc 10, 8 p.m.) ' . SyaneVj June 10. the most tuning daylight robbery in. the annals of Sydney crime occurred at noon to-day. A pay clerk dre<v £6J'ffl) ftcia the hank to pay the Evekigh wcrrkmen, drove to tlhv Wilson Street ontnnsco of tho works in a cat}, ami plaewl a cash box containing £3300 on thft shoulders of a workman.

Simultaneously a, motor-car drew up, and a masked man held up the clerk lv 'th a revolver., snatched the. casli-bos, transferred it to the ear, and drove off. A passing cart dashed off iti pursuit, out the horse ct)lja}>Sed, and the driver was compelled to abandon th® chase.

Tho robbers, stole the- car itii hour earlier at tho corner of Market ami Castleroagh Streets.

Tho police aro scouring tho city foy the missing car.

STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS expected. (Rec. .Tram 10, 0.1.5 a.m.)

Sydney, Juno 10. Startling developments are anticipated in connection with the Evdeigh robbery.

Iho police lwivo detained' the payclerk, tho employees, arid tho cabman". Finger-prints were also tafcen from the motor-car ami aii empty sash-box, which were fßiuid at Pjwiqm, "a wile out of tho city.