EVELEIGH HOLD-UP

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2207, 21 July 1914, Page 5

EVELEIGH HOLD-UP

. accused; w court. By Tckcraoh—Preiaj Msqcia-tiqiiACopyrlght (Red. July 20,.8 p,m.) ' Sydney, July 20. Arthur Tatharn, Norman Twiss, Samuol Frqemini, and Edward Ryan were again before the Court in. connect tion with the. Eveleigh robbery. Lengthy evidence for the prosecution was taken. The witnesses, wore unable to identity tho accused, except Twiss, who carried the when the robbery occurred. PRISONERS REMANDED. : (Rec, July 21, 0.50 a,m.) ; - Sydney, July 21. ■The accused in the Eveloigh case havo been remanded. The prosecution Ss calling thirty witnesses. : '••".. " . The Eveleigh robbery oeonrred at noon on Jijno 10. A pay clerk drew ,£O7OO from tho Imnk to pity the 13veleigli men, dyove to tlie Wilson' Street eih trance in a cab, and placed a cash-box containing <£3300'-o'ii the shquldoi'g of a workman. Simultaneously n, motor oar drew up, and a masked, man held ijp the clerk'with α-ievqlver, snatched the cash? bo*,..transferred it to the car, ami drove off.. A passing ojui; dashed off in pursujt, but tho horse collapsed and the flriyer wns compelled to abandon the. cha9e. Tho rowers stole the car an hour earlier <vt th'a corner of Market and CJnstlcreaqh Streets. Norman 'JViss, tho pay clerk, and Arthur. Tatham, ' the chauffpurj were -.promptly, arrested, ques; tioned, released, and rearrested the following day. The polico. subjeated both men to. the third dc.Rree. Samuel Freeman was arrested at Strathfield Station, where ho threatened to shoot the arresting constables. Ernest Ryan .was arrested in a cottage at Albert Park, Melbourne, under dramatic circumstances. The robbery was. witnessed by a dozen people, but all too quickly for pjiypne to prasp tho situation, or elso no one cared to risk, his life by interferins.