BANK ROBBERY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 27, 31 July 1924, Page 7

BANK ROBBERY

AN INGENIOUS PLAN

THIEF USES REVOLVER.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.-COn-RIOIIT.)-

-. MELBOURNE. 30th' July:-" By a clover se the Canterbury branch of the Commercial Bank wii'a robbed of £500 in single and five^ound

\Mien he arrived in the moriiiu-* tho manager, Mr. Morgan, found the telephone was out of order, and a few minutes later a neighbouring shopkeeper told him he was wanted by the head office on the. shop telephone: When Mr. Morgan left to go to the telephone/the teller, Mr. W. Chittick, entered the' bank, ami was confronted by an armed man. who told him not to move or he would .'bo shot, lhe intruder then snatched 'tho bank revolver from the wall and Tabbed a handful of notes from a drawer. Mr. Chittick rushed for another revolver in the manager's room, and as ho secured it the robber closed with him. Mr. Chittick fired a shot, but missed, and the man renlied with two shots wounding Mr. Chittick in a foot and "a hand. The thief then escaped throu"h the bank door.

lhe Jobbery evidently was carefully planned. ;is the bank telephone • wire's had been cut, and the manager found when he went to'the shop, he was not wanted at the telephone, an accomplice having apparently rung him to decoy him from the bank, while the other man must.have obtained entrance to the bank in the early hours of tho morning.