DARING ROBBERY
BANK HELD-UP. ' ONE ’'ROBBER CAUGHT. ' (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) r . ' ADELAIDE, Aug. 20. • A 1 daring daylight bank hold-up took jplace at Ntorwood branch of the Bank of Adelaide to-day. Two men, one armed 1 with a revolver, and the other carrying a file’wrapped inbrown paper, entered the bank,rthe- manager whereof, L. Clutterbuck, was alone at the time. The robber with the file struck him on the head and dazed him, but Clutterbuck had already pressed the alarm bell with his foot, summoning a neighbouring shop-keeper, who . telephoned, for detectives. The robbers stole £2OB and were departing over a back fence, when a plucky citizen named Crocker, having heard of the raid, caught and held one man. His confederate ran away to a taxi and escaped, but later the taxicab driver was arrested on a charge of complicity. The robber wnom. Crocker caught, had £lB6 in his pockets., .
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 5
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155DARING ROBBERY Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 5
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