THE BIG ROBBERY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2175, 13 June 1914, Page 5

THE BIG ROBBERY.

SUSPECTED ACCOMPLICES IN I THE COM. TBS "THIRD DEGREE;" CHAUFFEUR AND PAY CLKRK EXArvIINEI), By AE.scjdatitirl~&tfyrifjM Sydney, June 1.2. Tho polieo subjected tho arrested men ■ ■to tho third, degree. It. i& understood tho innnbers of tho niissi'tiß netes bto not known. . The rn.issi.tig money wit's replaced. and the Uveloigh wqrkiif.iin regciwd. ■.tiioijc wages only a few minutes Into. accused men before the COURT. EVIDENCE OF THE POLICE. (Hoe. Juno 1:2, S p.m.) . . .' Sydney, Juno 12. ; Tn ilium, tho chauffeur of tlio 6toloa flar, and Joseph Tviss, pay clerk, liavofen charged with aiding and abetting the Iw-ioigh robbery, the police stating tjiat information had befell rem red which 1e.4 th'&ui bciioro that both meii : were aecoflipliees. The primnpnls have not been nn'<jst«l.. : Tim. def.cndaii.te' ftbßcitor Contended that neither of tLe accused had been idc)iiifiorl in connection with tlio robbery, andthat when confronted eI tlio police Station they sa;id that they had never eeejj ono another before. . ■ 'Jilio policft gavo evidenco thai Tatliam! Jiad admitted that on the sortie day .a montii previously, tlio same car had ■ been stolen from tl:» «nmo spot about : nooil., and recovered within a. hundred yards «f the spot. When ho found tlio par missing on. tfta day of tho robbery, hij mjiorlcd the mattjfer -to :tlics "ga-rffft.e :i . but.did not report it; t'lio police. They ■ (ti'.o iiblicc) suggested 'tluit Tathai'ii irad aitowrd tho rar to bo taken tlio i mouth boforc for ilio. samo puvposo tt.s. on' tiic day Of tho rolibery, which Ta-! tllaln} doujftd, ■' J Tftiss,- questioned as to .why, he had ■ tiiadc no effort fa rotain. tlio cash-box,. ■ snjd tlwt lie had no time, " man 1 came up and said: "I want that box— it's mi no " Twiss denied tolliiip Oie railway omployees or anybody that a robbery could bo effected in the way m which vf ha;d actually occurred, or 'that ■ ■ ho was leaving the. service slsortly. He. admitted that he had carried the .cashlioxcs on alterimtivo W<Klncsdays for 3 years. . Tatiiam stated: tluit lio could identify tho man jv.itli whom lie had liad a drink when tl'.e car iva.s stolen,. . The polio/- stated _ that tlio robbery tfas rc|)ortcd ten minutes heforo they ■ . roo>i,vo<l the- report- of stoaliiig tho car. Tlio afenscd ivcr ( o r.emnßded, bail .hnl'ng fixed -at £3ii!) each, and three sure-; tic.s oi' £300 each. £400 REWARD. (Roc. June 12 ; , 9.35 p.m.) Sydney, June 11.. T.ho Inspector-f>onera 1 of Police lias recom'meiifled that.% reward of £400 and : 10 per centum of nny of tlio stoleii. wunov which niav be recovered., bo of- ■ le'red in, conneetion with the Evokigh robbp-v, •