Mole gang nets SIM from bank

Press, 24 February 1977, Page 6

Mole gang nets SIM from bank

NZPA New York Two bandits have robbed a suburban New York bank of more than $1 million after they apparently burrowed their way inside and hid for almost four days, the police have said. The bandits, wearing ski masks and carrying twoway radios, held up two bank employees when they reported for work on Tuesday morning in Yonkers, just north of New York City.

Mr Robert Besley, special agent-in-charge of the New Rochelle Federal Bureau of Investigation office, said that the two gunmen were there when the bank was opened shortly after 7 a.m.

The police found a hole in a basement wall behind a vending machine. Traces of food were found in (he basement, indicating that the robbers bad been inside the bank since last Friday. The bank was closed on Monday to mark George Washington’s birthday. Mr Besley said that the ■ gunmen handcuffed a male ' and female employee and placed canvas bags over their heads before stealing I two metal strong boxes I containing Yonkers Race- I way and other receipts and fleeing by car. “They (the employees) were handled gently' and with courtesy by the hold- i up men.”