BANK STAFF HELD UP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 7

BANK STAFF HELD UP

ROBBERS SECURE £IOOO (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph-*Copyright) BRISBANE, 19th January. Four armed men held up the staff of the Commercial Bank of Australia in George street, in the city, this evening and escaped in a waiting car with about £IOOO. (Received 20th January, 9.55 a.m.) BRISBANE. This Day.

Three men entered the bank just on closing time. One shut the doors while the others presented a revolver at the tellers and one customer. All were herded into the tellers’ box and covered by two gunmen, while a third gathered notes amounting to £950. They escaped by dropping fourteen feet from rear windows of the premises. The bank staff, taken unawares, were powerless.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AT PERTH

INTRUDER SHOT BY TEDDER

(Received 20th January. 10.15 a.m.) PERTH, This Day.

An attempt to rob the city branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia was made by a young man, but the teller shot him in the arm and he was arrested after a chase.

An elderly man who heard the shot rushed into the bank and thought the teller with the revolver in his hand was the robber, and held him down. Another man, who knew the teller, tried to release hipi and during the struggle the thief escaped.