MOSCOW BANK ROBBERY.
ARREST OF RINGLEADERS. 9 Received April 7, 8.33 a.m. GENEVA, April 6. An inebriated Russian who was arrested at Zurich was found to have bis wallet filled with banknotes. He confessed that he was the ringleader in the sensational robbery at the Mutual Credit Sooiety's Bank in Moscow on March 20th, when a large sum of money was carried off. (The robbery was a daring one. Twenty men, armed with revolvers, entered the bank just before closing time, and covered me assistants with their weapons. The robbers got away with 850,000 roub'es (nearly £90,000) lu gold and notes. After overpoworng the bank guards, the eang placed a large infernal machine in the middle of the building, threatening to blow the place up if the slightest attempt was made to raise an alarm. The robbers looked the clerks in the inner rooms, while they ransacked the desks and safes The whole operation only occupied fifteen minutes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8115, 9 April 1906, Page 5
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158MOSCOW BANK ROBBERY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8115, 9 April 1906, Page 5
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