ANOTHER BANK ROBBERY IN VICTORIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2050, 27 August 1885, Page 2

ANOTHER BANK ROBBERY IN VICTORIA.

[KM'Tl.k'.-J TFLLCKUts] Mi:r,m>uu\i:, August 25. Tin: Hotham Branch of the Federal Bank of Australia, Limited, was entered by burglar List night. The tobbors commenced operations upon the s,ih\ \*hi< h they were successful in opening, and abstracted upwards of £1,100. Later. Further iu-juiry into tlio Hoth.im Buik roViierv has resulted in the .11 rest on suspicion of a clerk named Robinson, who occupied the premises. "When questioned with repaid to his mo\ einents his answers were equhoc. il, and he was proved to have been m the habit of keeping bad company. Further inform ition respecting the robbery at the Hothain branch of the Federal Bank List night shows that the amount abstracted was much greater than at iirst reported. The total amount stolen from the safe w.is £'28.i(>, consisting of .£1919 Federal Bank notes, £461 in gold, and £12+ in siher. The clerk named Robinson, aged '2i, who slept on the premises in close proximity to the safe, asserts that lie returned to the bank to sleep about midnight, and was not distui bed during the night. He fur, ther states that, by mistake, he left the keys in the keyhole of the door. There are no signs of force being used to enter the premises or open the safe, but the inner drawers of the latter had been broken open. The explanation of Robinson not being considered satisfactory, he was ai rested.

[Rccenecl August 20th, lpm] MuLiiounvE, Wednesday. The man Robinson who is in custody on suspicion of being implicated in the Hotham bank robbery assorts that tlio theft was, coniniitted at bieakfast time when he was absent from the bank premises. The police so far have been unsuccessful in recovering any of the stolen money.