BANK MURDER

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 83, 7 April 1924, Page 7

BANK MURDER

A MYSTERIOUS GRIME

THE WORK OF^ EXPERTS

PREMONITIONS OF TRAGEDY.

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An outstanding feature of the murder o£ the manager of the Borden sub-1 branch of Lloyd's Bank is the secrecy with which it was carried out. Mr. Hall had been dead probably two hours before his body was discovered. The; police had leave stopped aj; the adjoining military camp, but - all the soldiers and weapons were accounted for. Four large-calibre bullets Nvere fired. Apparently the desperadoesV fired a fusillade through the open door of the bank, which is a small wooden war hut. They carefully discarded bkod-stained notes. The numbers of •' some of, the stolen notes are known. The key of the main door has not been found. * An armed sentry and patrols in the environs of Aldershot saw nothing unusual, and heard no shots. The police believe that the murder was carried out by experts, who .arrived I in a motor-car after bank hours, and that Mr. Hall probably unlocked the door and admitted them, and returned behind the counter. Apparently one of the' visitors talked . business with Mr.' Hall and ike other suddenly whipped out a revolver, fired three shots, and killed Mr. Hall as he stood counting out Treasury notes. The murderers re-: locked the door as they went out. Mr. Hall's loaded revolver was found untouched in a drawer in the counter. The bank is offering £500 reward-for information regarding the.. murderers. ' Mr. Hall i and his wife-both had premonitions of tragedy.' The wife recalls that her husband, when lea-ving I home on Thursday morning, returned and embraced her again twice. On Wednesday night she dreamed that she was at; her parents' home and everyone was weeping owing to some calamity. „ Mr. Hall told, the postmaster he had a presentiment that something was going to happen. He also told a friend, when mentioning the foreboding,that he would put up a great fight before he would part with his cash. Deceased was of striking physique, and the thieves obviously took him by surprise.. — . , ■ ■ " r ■