BANDITS FIRE ON POLICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 729, 31 July 1929, Page 1

BANDITS FIRE ON POLICE

Gun Battle in Vancouver DARING HOLD-UP AND ESCAPE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 1.22 p.m. VANCOUVER, Tuesday. MISTAKING the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s paymaster’s car for that of a large bank carrying the monthly payroll of the railway company, five unmasked bandits staged a daring hold-up in the railway yards at Vancouver. After staging a gun battle with railway and city police, they escaped with cheques valued at 91,520 dollars. The cheques are useless to them, however.

The bank car was to have followed the paymaster’s with a large sum in cash and cash cheques for employees. The hold-up is one of the most daring in the history of crime in Canada. The railway yards, which are practically on the waterfront, cover a large area of land at Vancouver, and escape would be comparatively easy for the bandits. An efficient force of armed police is kept up by the Canadian Pacific

Railway, all the men being expert revolver shots and thoroughly trained by ex-mounted police officers and military men. They work in conjunction with the Vancouver police. The hold-up is the most daring since the famous City Hall robbery several years ago, when three armed men held up a city paymaster In midafternoon outside the door of the Town Hall and escaped with 65,000 dollars in cash.