SCOTTISH MURDER
A BANKER BATTERED.
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. J
LONDON, August 13
Robert Donald, aged 24, cashier of the Radnor Park Branch of the Clydesdale Bank, at Glasgow, was found with his head battered in, and it was found that two thousand sterling ha.d been stolen from the branch. Donald was in sole charge of the Bank. The shocking injureis to his head were due to a jemmy hammer. He died five minutes after being found. The police have no clues, but they believe there was more than one assailant, and that the thieves made a lightning raid on the Bank just as the branch closed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 5
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