If you want to know the crime...
The Christchurch police started off looking for a bank robber yesterday afternoon, but ended up making routine inquiries into an attempted fraud.
Shortly before 3 p.m. the police were told third-hand that someone had tried to rob a city bank, and was being chased by the bank’s manager. “They didn’t even tell us which bank, so we sent patrols to the inner city and started ringing around the banks,” a police spokesman said.
The police did not know the true story until the bank manager himself arrived at the Christchurch central police station soon afterwards.
The manager told the police that he had not chased a would-be robber, but a person who had tried fraudulently to cash a cheque at the North Square branch of the Canterbury Savings Bank. The person managed to escape among the throng of Friday afternoon shoppers. He had not been traced by last evening.
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Press, 16 June 1979, Page 6
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