BANDIT’S DARING RAID
COUNCIL WAGES GRABBED. Motor bandits carried out a daring raid at Woolwich recently, and got away with over £12,000, which has been drawn from the bank to pay the wages of Woolwich Borough Council’s staff. The money had been drawn by Mr A. W. Smart, an assistant in the Borough Treasurer’s department, from Barclay's Bank. At the bank a bag containing the money was handed to Mr W. H. Barton, a council porter, to carry to the town hall. Mr Barton placed the bag on his shoulder, and he and Mr Smart went up the street together. Barton was nearer the kerb, and he and Smart had just crossed an intersecting street when a saloon car drove close into the gutter, and the bag was snatched from Mr Barton’s shoulder by a man in the rear of the car.
The driver immediately accelerated, and the car passed the town hall and disappeared. The car was subsequently found abandoned at East Greenwich.
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Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 8
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164BANDIT’S DARING RAID Southland Times, Issue 21097, 31 May 1930, Page 8
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