ROBBER'S DARING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18266, 27 December 1924, Page 11

ROBBER'S DARING.

SINGLE MAN HOLDS UP BANK. ESCAPES IN COMMANDEERED CAR. (BT r A HT.r—PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT) (StDXIT "St*" SSBVICE.) (Received December 25th, <.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. December 25. There, was a bold Christmas hold-up when a single robber ralmly walked into the State Bank at iNcw Orleans when the doors were opened at nine o'clock yesterday, took a shortened shot gun from under his coat, locked four clerks in tho vault, and took away £3OOO. Fortunately the vault was equipped with a device permitting it to bo openod from the inside. The employees freed themselves, and when the robber reached the sidewalk shouted for help. A policeman came running up but the robber wounded him with buckshot. He then commandeered a passing automobile and, compelling the driver to speed with him, escaped. CANADIAN BANK RAIDED. DETECTIVE RECOGNISES LEADER'S LANGUAGE. (austkaxjax AXD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 26th, 7.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, December 25. •Six men drovo a motor-car to tho front of the bank in tho coal mining town of Nanaimo on pay day. While two of them guarded the entrance four others collected £BOOO. The gang escaped across the American border. During the robbery the manager was imprisoned in a vault, the leader of the robbers threatening him with characteristically strong language. A sample of the languago was communicated to Detective Tennantof, of .Seattle, who remarked: I know who he is. Ho is Ross Watson, a former Seattle policeman. Later Watson and three other men were arrested and identified by the bank officials. Part of the booty has been recovered.