BANK RAID BY MOTORCAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3070, 15 December 1908, Page 3

BANK RAID BY MOTORCAR.

A DARING ROBBERY

A daring robbery was committed In the most approved "Wild West" style at Meupest, a suburb of Budapest, on October 28th. Four welMresssd young men •drove to the branch establishment of the Hungarian Commercial Bank in a motor-car, and entered the building. Two of thern immediately barred the doors while the other two covered the clerks with revolvers and ordered them to hold up their ihands. The clerks olieyed .'but the cashier shouted "Robbers!" •and tried to reach the door of the 'inner office. One of tbe baniits shot at him, ••and then felled him with the butt ■of his revolver. The bank manager, who appeared in response f ,o the cashier's cry, was ordered to hand over all the cash, amounting to more than £2,000. While the manager was transferring •the notes and specie across the -counter, one of the robber 3 cut the telephone wires with a knife. The raiders then disappeared, after threatening to shoot the clerks if they followed. Th-ey locked the •doors Iron Sh3 o.itsh.e and disappeared i i t'leii' m .tor-car. The poli.'-J n-v-'e b'tiu unable to secure any in:: •■)!; cue a. from the accenc wion w i:jo t:i ;y spoxe Hungarian they are believed to be Italians.