THE ELUSIVE LIST
PURSUERS STILL BAFFLED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGBT.)
MELBOURNE, 28th January. List continues to elude his pursuers. It is believed that he may 'either have, drowned himself in the Yarra or one of the numerous quarry holes in Richmond, or have made his way to one of the lonely hamlets in the back country which are without police since the police strike, all members of the Force 'having been called to the capital. Another theory is that he is disguised as a woman, his figure lending itself admirably to such a disguise.' The question also has been rai % i whether he was the perpetrator oi a, robbery in a pastrycook's shop at Malvern on Saturday night. When a young-wo-man assistant was 'about to shut the shop a dark, unshaven man, with his hat crushed over his eyes, entered-the shop, produced a revolver, and cried: "For God's sake give me some cakes./ Holding J;he revolver against her head, he seized a< block of cake and a quantity of pastry, and then ignoring the till he escaped on ' a motor-cycle.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 24, 29 January 1924, Page 5
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