SHOWER OF BANKNOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9469, 11 June 1909, Page 6

SHOWER OF BANKNOTES.

A cashier, accompanied by a porter, was leaving the Volga-Kama Commercial Bank,. Bostoff-on-tba-Don, with £7OOO worth of bank* notes, which were to be paid into the State Bank, when, as he' was entering a cab, half-a-dozen robbers with revolvers attacked him. When he refused to give np the money he Was shot in the shonlder and the notes were snatched from him. The bandits then jnmped into a cab and drove off, firing continuously at the crowd and police who on foot and horseback followed them. They also threw two bombs, which, however, did little damage beyond breaking glass and wounding a few persons. As they fled the men threw ont packets, of bank-notes to delay their pursuers, but they were soon run down. Two of them were oaptnred and the others were pursued on foot. One was caught in the garden of the Danish Vice Consul, and another was shot dead nnder a bed in a bouse where he had sought shelter after wounding a police officer. The others escaped. Four thousand pounds of the £7OOO stolen was recovered.