DARING ROBBERIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3364, 17 December 1919, Page 6

DARING ROBBERIES.

‘SERIES IN ENGLAND. - RENIARKABLE OUTRAGES PER-‘PETE-ATED. LONDON, Dec. 15. A rema.rk'able series of -daring robberieg occurred yesterday. A man went. into the Yorkshire Penny Bank, in Leeds, as it was closing, called out “Hands up!” and covered the manager, two clerks, and a woman assistant with a revolver. The manager ‘tried to rush the intruder, but was shot through the head. The man then locked the clerks in 8. room, seized £4OO, and drove away in a taxi, waiting -outside, the driver of which did not lmow anything unusual .had happened. Another robbery of £IO,OOO worth of jewellery from the bedroom of a house in Cadogan Square occurred early in the evening while the Whole whole household was about. The thief climbed the portion, entered the first floor and escaped. ' In another case a couple of thieves in Birmingham clarried away a. safe containing £440 from .a restaurant while the diners were looking on. No one suspected anything was wrong.