MOTOR BANDITS
MAKE A RAID,
[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Deceived this day at 8.30. a.m.) NEW YORK, February o.
A Detroit message states ten bandits with, the precision of a military squad held up the main office of Westtern Union Telegraph, herded eleven employees and twenty customers in a back room and esenped with £IOOO sterling. Eight confederates stood on guard, two- just outside the doors, and two others stationed in motor cars ready to speed away. Three others stood at the nearest corner intersection, one holding a machine gun. By the time the passers by had realised what was happening, the bandits had secured the money and flown.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1930, Page 5
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