SENSATIONAL ARREST

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9030, 9 November 1925, Page 5

SENSATIONAL ARREST

ATTEMPTED BANK ROBBERY. (Per Press Association.) Auckland, Nov 7 A sensational arrest was made iii Broadway, Newmarket, last evening’, when a masked man, who htyd attempted to hold up the manager of the Newmarket branch of the Auckland Savings Bank, was grappled by some of the crowd and banded to the police. When he confronted the manager (Mr Gilmour) the would-be robber evidently expected a surrender, but Mr Gilmour tackled him in- , stead. The man then ran and at- ] tempted to get away, but Mr Gilmour bung to him. The man then , fired a shot from a revolver bub missed. Taxi-drivers from a nearby stand came to Mr Gilmour's 1 assistance and the assailant was , overpowered and the revolver secured after a violent struggle. It ( contained two live cartridges be- . sides an empty shell. When the taxi-men from Schofield's garage got the man down on the ground he fought desperately to retain his grip of the revolver. Guo of the taxi-drivers endeavour- , ed to relax the determined grip by healing the man’s hands with a. length of iron, while another attempted to force his hand open with the heel of his boot. Mr Schofield, from the garage, and Mr A. S. Henry of a nearby battery, were first to come to Mr Gilmonr’s assistance, and with others sueceeded in overpowering the man, from whose hands the revolver was finally wrenched, and he was handended by Constable Whyte. When unmasked the prisoner proved to be George Joseph Marshall, aged sixty, who, it is understood, was at one time employed in a minor capacity in one of the Savings Bank’s branches.