ARMED HOLDER-UP
IN SYDNEY TO-DAY.
£2000 IN CASH STOLEN.
Desperate Bandits Wound Two Men and Escape. OUTRAGE IN CITY STREET. [United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A sensational hold-up occurred in Barrack Street, in the city, this morning. Two men from the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board had just drawn £2000 from the Bank of New South "Wales and -were entering their car when another car, containing two men, drew up behind it.
It is stated that one man from the strange car drew a revolver and pressed it into the back of the driver of the Water Board car, demanding that the money bo hajided over. The demand was resisted, whereupon two shots were fired, and the driver was wounded in the. arm. His companion was struck on the head and knocked unconscious by the other bandit.
The assailants then seized the bag containing the money, and escaped. They were last seen crossing the Pynnont Bridge, into the outskirts of the city.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 149, 26 June 1934, Page 7
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