DARING ROBBERIES IN ENGLAND
A REMARKABLE SERIES. (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. December 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 13. ,A remarkablo series of daring robberies occurred vesfenlay A man went into t.h« Yorkshire Penny Bank in Leeds as it was closing, called out "Hands up!" and covered the manager, two clerks, and a woman assistant with iiis revolver. The manager tried to rusli the intruder, but was shot through the head. The man then locked the clerks in a room, seized £400. and drove away, in a (axi that was waiting outside. The driver of the taxi did not know that anything unusual had happened. Another robbery of .£10,(100 worth of iewellerv from the bedroom of a. house in Cadogan Square occurred early in the evening, while the whole household was about. The thief climbed the portico, entered the first floor, and escaped. In'another case a couple of thieves in Birmingham carried away a safe . containing .£440 from a restaurant while the diners were looking on. None of them suspected that anything was wrong.—Aus.-N.JS. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 69, 15 December 1919, Page 9
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