AUDACIOUS ROBBERY
FROM MELBOURNE BANK CLERKS. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, October 16. Two tellers of the Commercial Bank of Australia were conveying ,a large sum of money in bags from one branch to another in Collingwood to-day, when two armed men stopped them and ordered that the bags be dropped. One teller had his revolver taken away by the thieves, who then escaped in a waiting car with £769. The robbery was audaciously* carried out in the full view of a number of people, and it was executed with the greatest celerity..
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1931, Page 5
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92AUDACIOUS ROBBERY Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1931, Page 5
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