DARING ROBBERY

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19198, 3 January 1928, Page 11

DARING ROBBERY

BANK TELLER KIDNAPPED

LOSS OF 80,000 DOLLARS

IBT CABLE—FKESS ASSOCIATION— COPTSIGST.) (AUSTRALIA* AJ.D W.X. «'A*ll ASSOCIATION.)

(Received January 2nd, 7 p.m.)

NEW YORK, December 31

An unusual and well-planned and executed robbery occurred at Chicago today, resulting in a loss by the Ravenswood National Bank of 80,000 dollars. Seven robbers invaded the home of the paying teller late at night on the pretext that they were Prohibition officials. They tied and muffled the teller's parents and mounted a guard over them in a vacant garage. They then drove with the teller to the bank, where they compelled him to open the doors with his keys. After this they waited patiently until eight in the morning, when the time clock in the vault was set for opening. They then compelled the teller to swing open the doors, extracted the currency, and disappeared in an automobile.

EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES,

(AUSTRALIA!? ANO N.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.)

(Received January 2nd, 8.45 p.m.)

NEW* YORK, January 1

Thirty-two shops in the principal thoroughfare of the city of Galesburgj lllionis, were broken into and robbed last night. Every variety of establishment was entered and all kinds of goods removed. A week ago twelve shops were entered by burglars and the following night four burglaries arc believed to be AH the burglaries are believed to be the work of one band. No arrests have been made.