RAIDS ON BANKS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1922, Page 5

RAIDS ON BANKS.

ROBBERIES IN IRELAND. PLUCKY GIRL CLERK. , ’ TUSSLE WITH ROBBERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 23, 5.5 p.m. 1 London, July 22. Sensational raids were made by armed men on four Dundalk banks, and sums varying from £2OO to £4OO were stolen. In the Munster and Leinster Bank the robbers ordered a priest, Canon Donella, to “bail up.” He refused and declined, even at the point of the revolver, to go to the strong-room, but instead he seized two inkwells and flung them through a window into the street, where the crash of glass attracted Free State troops, who trained a machine-gun on the bank and surrounded the building. The raiders attempted to leave by the rear, but three were captured, while the fourth, who was carrying the cash, escaped. In the Hibernian Bank a lady clerk grappled -with a robber, who struck her. She held on gamely, but w’as shaken off. She then followed the fleeing raider down the street, but was out-distanced.

The robbers met no opposition in the Bank of Ireland and the National Bank. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.