MURDER OF BANK MESSENGER
FIVE CORSICANS ARRESTED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright MARSEILLES, November 2G. (Received November 27, at 10.5 a.m.) Five Corsicans have been arrested for tho murder of a bank messenger. One, it is alleged, confessed. Another of those arrested stood as a candidate at tho last elections for tho Chamber of Deputies.—Australian Press Association. , [A message received on November 23 stated that iivo masked bandits drove up in a taxicab to tbo entrance of tho Elgerotuni Sienno Rank, opposite tho "Stock Exchange, amid hundreds of people, and held up three messengers who were taking money to a large factory on the outskirts of the town. The messengers resisted, hut tho bandits lirod pistols ami tore the pouches from iho messengers’ bodies. They then re-entered the taxi and drove oil' at a. furious rate. The crowd at first thought it was a movie stunt, hut found that one of the messengers was dead and tho others seriously injured. The bandits secured £3,000.]
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Evening Star, Issue 20034, 27 November 1928, Page 5
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