DESPERATE HOLD-UP
POLICEMAN KILLED AND £7,678 TAKEN NEW YORK SENSATION iAustralian and A T .Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.6 jkm. NEW YORK, Wed. One of the boldest daylight hold-ups in the Police Department’s memory occurred to-day, when five bandits armed witfii revolvers and sawed-off shotguns intercepted a taxicab and peppered it with shots, shooting a policeman through the head and a pay-roll guard less seriously. The bandits escaped in an automobile with the £7,678 pay-roll of the Bell Telephone Company, near whose offices in New York City the robbery occurred.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 1
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