Bank Robbery in South Australia.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1667, 25 March 1886, Page 2

Bank Robbery m South Australia.

FURTHER PARTICULABS;

A daring burglarly waa commit^d ai the Yankalilla branch of the Commercial Bank of South Australia on the morning of the? 6th March. At about 1 (O'clock two or three men entered the bank'p>emise«, . gagrtd the managerjjMr Lyall (who is the son* of the Rev. Ji(me« \ Lyall) and ihis^ife^- and -took- bank notes to the value of £1,240. ~ There was no gold cr silver on -the premise?. i The manager was that day to have taken all r the notes to Adelaide*; The; n^niben of the'notes are known, aad,paymen^ha« been stopped. . Mr Lyall telegraphed as folbws to the Ciiainnan of the B6aM of Directors :—" The" bank was br*blcen*mto between one arid two oh Saturday morn, ing: ' I awoke finding myself wa*pe4 by the throat, was overpowered^ gafsred* and bound tp-the-bed. Mrs LyalT was 'alsb bound.. ; The ,safe Ayatrbrpken into, bufr the intruders found notningV is the >ca,Bhjwas.m ! a portmahteau ready fecPUike to town this morning: The portmanteatt ■ was opened, m £1 not** and JfyS' m f £s !) notes w«?e taMfip The notes 1 all of the Comniiercial, Bank* The m, the portmanteaujwaa £2,287. .An. .entrance was ,eff«W through r the front robin wmdpyf! /: *• Mr Lyall is a Wong '-y bong 'itian, about twenty-fbfir years of age. Mm Lyall states that ih« awoke,, and [found that 'her 'Husband had- been »«eedv by 'the men.'- She jumped oat, of .bed^wjeri i& buH's:-eje:ilanjb(jrn .wjasj flatbed- ,on, her. She heard a voice say, "Tellme Wfiere the keys are, or else we will blow|fcur brains out." Shit was too frightened to r sneak or 100 lt J ttp*} and she believed thai jsbejsjtirooneji,.; She /thought THhat •there ..were,; two men, a«4 on *e "*^ -bii fa(»lWackeb«'d. ' ' ! ;■ " ' ''■ 8 iJQ ! 'i Ull^ Mr* Bird/ liyes next- door -iwai | called into tl^bank by a|Miss Coombe, and hefoim^^^and^Mni^Lyall boond hand^^^3Bt and gagged. fMr Lyall'B i fqfijiem blre the marks of a^^imrora a pluntlnttrument^ and? lie was uncon. scious f or some time. A comspondent of the South AurtrahwJßjegtster., says:^ On\ g^feff into' r the^w^ffiseß I found that Mr Bn% had partjifiy^eleased Mr Lyall, and that Mrs Lyall was lying on ber-back'on the floor. Herhands^er© tiedttogether with blind c6Td''pVßsea : -th>6u^h£sace^only, but I should thmk it was sufficiently strong to hold any ordinary woman who was m terror. She was moaning very much, and Miss Coombe was attending to her. The latter called "inejto go^Tipide/tha bankrooui, and shoWe^ me(tfa^^%s>f! It had every appearance of being ransacked thoroughly: ] She., then^ asked me to go with *ncr "to the' front^ room, and we found on entering ? that the window — an ordinary sash window— was thrown up. She said, ♦ This is hqw they,muat have got. in.' . The police are balieyea to have a due, but as yet ne arrests h'ave^fieen ■made.": . . : ;.'"; .;';.■■: "'"'■'■■•'■■*