DARING BANDITS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1922, Page 11

DARING BANDITS.

BANKER ROBBED OF £40,000. HOUSEHOLD HELD UP. Vancouver, April 3. The New York police are looking for the master robber, a Paris Apache type, who directed four comrades in an attack on Sunday night on the residence of Albert Shattuck, a banker. Their methods were picturesque. Entering the house before daybreak through a coal hole, they remained concealed for nine hours, and when all the servants and the family were in the dining room the masked leader, named Henry, bounded into the room flourishing a revolver and shouting •‘Hands up!” The other bandits quickly bound the servants and locked them in the wine cellar. The robbers then collected at leisure diamonds and pearls. When the police arrived one bandit was captured, and the other fled with booty*worth more than .£40,000. Shattuck had unbound himself, picked the lock of the wine cellar, and summoned the police. The new Merchants’ Banks opened its doors this morning in the same block as the United States Treasury Building, according to a message from Washington. Among the inspecting guests was a man who snatched bank notes to the value of £lOOO from a paying teller, who leaped the counter and pursued the robbere, firing his revolver. Hundreds of Government clerks who were out for lunch pursued the bandit. He was captured and the booty was recovered.