A CHICAGO EPISODE.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1928, Page 4

A CHICAGO EPISODE.

XFAV YORK, Dec. 20. Chicago. where accord ins t<> -Mayor Thompson, crime has boon reduced hv 50 per cent, since his installation in miice, was again the scene yesterday of an audarionsy successful bandit, outrage. The victim was the university. Late in the afternoon a cashier and ten women clerks were counting and sorting £I,OOO worth of hank notes, which had been delivered by an armed lorry a quarter of an hour before. Five men, four of whom were masked, entered the offices. Four of the women clerks wire-protected cages; TTVe others were working at open desks. To all the leader of the intruders gave the order. “Hands up, everybody! If you like to live, don’t make a move. Wo want money and we’ll shoot to get it.’’ The clatter of typewriters cense*. Twenty fair hands and other sturdier ones were raised into the air. T"'o of the hand its entered the money cages; two more hacked the tyuists and clerks and cashiers against the wall. Meanwhile the leader had walked into the private office of Mr William .]. Mather, the chief cashier. “This is a stick-up,” he said. “Stand up!” Mr Maher did as he was told. A few moments later the bandits shouted to their leaders that all the loot had been collected. All five then walked backwards to the door and hurried away to their motor-car with the parting admonition from their leader to the university police staff, “If you follow. von die.”