DARING ROBBERIES
REMARKABLE SERIES IN ENGLAND
BANK MANAGER MURDERED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIEIQHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
LONDON, 13th December. ■ A remarkable series of daring robberies occurred yesterday. A man went into the Yorkshire Penny Bank in Leeds as it was closing, called out, "Hands tip !'• and covered the manager, two clerks, and a woman assistant with his revolver. The manager tried to rush the intruder, but was shot through the head. The man then locked the clerks in a room, seized £400, and drove away in a taxi that was waiting outside. The driver of the taxi did not know that anything unusual had happened. Another robbery of £10,000 worth of jewellery 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. Nona of them suspected that anything was wrong.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 5
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174DARING ROBBERIES Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 143, 15 December 1919, Page 5
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