Bank Robbery at Melbourne

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 92, 14 January 1886, Page 2

Bank Robbery at Melbourne

OWN^foifP^EMlfeES SHOT. N _i;| j'' M^ißoVriNß, January 12. An l& bai&^mbbery took --. pla^ttat lOt o'cloclfc-tini%onung at the ' Collingwood suburbanbrjnich of the Commercial £ank of^~&ustralia. On : arrival of the bank manager with a the building and. attacked, him. T A struggle tipdt^)lade> in * we^ooraetr of which the manager fired his jrgvplzer af nis assailants f^tne snot, however, Tinfortanateiyjstructth^o^riefojtlie premises, MraKavenßcroft, : whVcame in onj heaxing tks struggle,; tind she is reported to be dead. One of the robbers wa» arrested, but-iip to the ■■.'-.'. present,time. the .other two 3iave c not been captured. ■• ■■ .•_ ■; i ': : a;> ■:■ '-jkiiuary IS. Further reports respecting the at? empted .rqbiberv of :the-;Go^ingwoQd suburban branc^ of the Commercial Bank of Australia 1 confirm the state* ment that ;3£rs Ravenscroft is. dead. The baii ;j manager' tiiade a most pluclgr defence, when attacked by the robbewr" -u^e aiisiilarits' were larrikins, one of whom, w^ i arn^'Tifith a revolver, the second carried $k crowbar, aiid 'thY ti^i^^a jjtpmajbawk./ No money was stolen, tEe robbers being completely foiled in, J( the attempt to secure coin. Four persons have been arrested, in- connection s^thj|b,ei affair. Only one 6i the four men arrested in conneciaou with: the; Cp^i^gwood bank robbery has been detained. The other three, being.,. able ; tQ;. explain their movements to tiie satisfaction of the police, were raleas^dirom^opstody.