DARING ROBBERY
THIEF’S DRAMATIC ESCAPE Perth, January 18. A sensational robbery recurred at 6 o’clock yesterday evening. A welldressed man entered the West Perth Post Office, and covering the manager with a revolver, empited the cash drawer, securing about £2O. Police Sergeant Hunter, seeing a man running, pursued the robber, who turned and” fired at the police officer, but missed. He then ran to a motor-car and compelled the driver, at the revolver’s point, to start. A police motor-cycle followed, and on reaching the park the robber left the car and dived into the bush, tho police following. The fugitive fired five running shots at them, thereby securing a lead. Emerging from the park he held up another motor-car, threatening to shoot the driver, and compelled him to drive rapidly away, and so escaped.—T’ress Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 97, 19 January 1924, Page 6
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