POLICE VIGILANCE
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY;
BANK ROBBERY PLOT
(Received May 31, 10.30 a.m.)
MELBOURNE. This Day. - Detectives have been investigating for three months a report that an attempt would be made to rob the Commonwealth Bank at Ballarat of about £100,000.
The police state that two constables when on beat duty in Ballarat were each offered £10,000 for their complicity. These policemen informed their superiors of the plot, and, acting upon the information, a large number of detectives kept a constant guard on the bank. On the night of April 27 the police allege that a car containing an oxy-acetylene plant was driven to Ballarat and stopped within 100 yards of the bank and that two men climbed on the windowsill of the building but they were disturbed and returned to Melbourne. The oxy-acety-lene plant and a kit of burglar's tools were found on the Ballarat road by the' police next morning.
Yesterday the police questioned two men whom they later charged with having conspired to break and enter the Commonwealth Bank at Ballarat
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 127, 31 May 1935, Page 9
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