MOTOR BANDITS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 677, 13 June 1914, Page 7

MOTOR BANDITS.

DAYLIGHT ROBBERY IN SYDNEY. . PAY CLERK ROBBED OP £3300. By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Ooßyrignt Sydney, Thursday. ? The iuoat dating daylight robbery in the annals of Sydney crime occurred at noon yesterday. A clerk drew a sum of £6700 from a bank to pay the Eveleigh workmen, and'drove to the Wilson street entrance in a cabi There he placed a casbbox . containing £3300. on the shoulderß of a workman. • Simultaneously a motor cat drew op, and a masked man "held up"/ the clerk with a revolver, snatched the box away, transferred it to the car, and drove away.

/A passing cart dashed in pursuit, but the horse collapsed, and the driver was compelled to abandon the CMS*. . The robber stole the car an; hour . earlier v from the corner of Market and CastlTeigh streets. The police, after scouring the city for the missing car, found it. aa well as the empty cash box, at Pyrmor.t. .' The pay clerk, some employees, and the cabmen were subsequently detained by the police, and their fin-ger-prints taken. * The robbery was witnessed by a dozen people.but it all happened either too quickly for anyone to grtfsp tha situation, or none cared to risk their liveß by interfering. > One onlooker states that he made, a move to follow the car, but the driver drew a revolver and threatened his life. The police so far have no definite clue. Though two men were detained for a time last night, no arrests were made. The robbers were apparently well aware that yesterday was payday at the Eveleigh workshops, and that the pay clerks would arrive at a lertaintime With the money in their charge. , The pay clerks, John Henry and Frederick Miller, were both P.rmed with revolvers, but the hold up was bo sudden that they were non-plussed. One attempted to draw a revovler. but' was* told that his brainß would be' blown out if he resisted. As Boon as he had secured the box the desperado drove off at top speed. • The missing money consisted of £2150 in five-pound notes, £1038,: gold, and the balance in silver and copper;