ROBBERY ON THE MOVE
FASCINATING TACTICS VSJfcl) London, May 25. Hundreds of people in London si reels to-day watched the swift theft of £4OO bank money from a lorry delivering the cash to district branches. A black car swung in behind the lorry, and while the vehicles moved through the traffic one man climbed into tbo body of the lorry and heaved cut bags of silver on to the car’s bonnet. Accomplices In the moving car received the bags, stowed them in the car and drove off when the man climbed back from the lorry. | The crowd appeared to be fascinated by the swift sequence of events. ' The, driver of Hie car. when one vorr fp]] nn to the roadway, opened (lie car’s d-cor, leaned on( and picked up the bug without stopping.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14070, 27 May 1946, Page 3
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