Robber finds crime does not pay
NZPA-Reuter Bolton The Bolton police are looking for a disappointed bank robber — a masked gunman who fled with a bag full of empty money bags. A counter clerk, confronted by the gunman’s demand for cash, reached down and calmly filled Ms bag with plastic bags as if they were piles of banknotes. The gunman sprinted from the bank in Bolton, north-west England, presumably believing he was carrying a fortune.
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Press, 28 May 1984, Page 6
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