SHOWER OF BANK-NOTES.
A cashier, accompanied by a porter, was leading the Volga-Kama Commercial Bank, Rostoff-on-the-Don, recently with £ 7,000 worth of banknotes, which were to be paid into the State Bank, when, as he was entering a cab, half-a-dozen robbers with revolvers attacked him. When he refused to give up the money he was shot in the shoulder and the notes were snatched from him. The bandits then jumped into I a cab and drove off, firing continuously at the crowd and police I who on foot and horseback followed them. They also threw two bombs, which did little damage beyond breaking glass and wounding a few persons. As they fled the men threw out packets of banknotes to delay their pursuers, but they were soon run down. Two of them were captured and the others were pursued on foot. One was caught in the garden of the Danish V ice-Consul, and another j was shot, dead under a bed in a house where he had sought shelter after wounding a police officer. The others escaped. Four thousand pounds of the £7OOO stolen was recovered.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3213, 12 June 1909, Page 7
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185SHOWER OF BANK-NOTES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3213, 12 June 1909, Page 7
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