DARING BANDIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7

DARING BANDIT.

SYDNEY ROBBERY.

Lone Thief Takes £1300 from Three Other Men.

PUBLIC OFFICIAL ARMED

(United P.A—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The sensational robbery carried out in Barrack Street, Sydney, yesterday morning, was reported at first to have been committed by two men, but subsequently it transpired that one man was responsible, although he had a confederate in a car round a corner. The thief escaped in this car with £1300—reported in the first instance to have been £2000. An extraordinary feature of the case from the point of .Mew of tj.e police is how one man, although he was armed, was capable of defeating three men, one of whom, Eric Green, -wan an armed escort for the Public Works paymaster, Herbert Ward. Green told the police he had no chance to draw his revolver. The thief hurled the money on the road, leapt from the car, picked up the money and transferred it to his confederate's car. The bandit's car then sped away followed by a solitary pedestrian. Green has since told the police that he fired a revolver shot through the back of the bandit's car, and the police believe the thief was wounded in the nose. All roads in the State are being watched. According to the story told by Ward, and confirmed by Edgar Brown, the driver of the car, the bandit boarded their car after the paymaster had drawn the £1300 from the Bank of New South Wales, and sat beside the driver on the front seat. i With a revolver levelled at the driver the man ordered him, in broaa daylight and within view of scores of people, to drive round a corner. Ward states that he aimed a blow at the bandit, but missed him. Brown received a blow on the head from the butt of the intruder's revolver for not quickly obeying his instructions, and 'was dazed. Then began a struggle with the other two, including Green, who declares that he also received a blow on the head from the revolver,' causing a severe abrasion. Ward seized the bandit's hand and the lattor's revolver was discharged and shot him in the left arm.