ROBBERY PLAN.
SCOTCHED BY POLICE.
Alleged Conspiracy to Steal
£100,000
POLICE REFUSE £10,000 BRIBE
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 11.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Detectives have been investigating for three months a report that an attempt would be made to rob the Commonwealth Bank at Ballarat of about £100,000. Tho police state that two constables on beat duty in Ballarat were each offered £10,000 for their complicity, these policemen informed their superiors of tho plot, and, acting upon this information, a large number of detectives have kept constant guard on the bank. On the night of April 27 the police alleged that a car containing an cxyacetylene plant was dr'ncn to Ballarat and stopped within 100 yards of the bank. Two men climbed on to tho window-sill of the building, but they were disturbed and returned to Melbourne. An oxy-acetylene plant and a kit of burglars' tools were found on tho Ballarat road bv the police next morning. Yesterday tho police questioned two men and they were later charged with having conspired to break and enter the Commonwealth Bank at Ballarat.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 127, 31 May 1935, Page 7
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