BANDITS INVADE BANK
ONE KILLED, THE OTHER CAPTURED Pre« Association—By Telegraph—Copyright VANCOUVER, December 19. A message from Seattle states that two robbers descended upon the First National Bank at Coqnillo (Oregon) and took possession of the hank ns it opened business at 9 o’clock, but a cashier saw them coming, and, dashing into the vault, opened fire with a rifle in reply to the robbers’ fusillade. They snatched £4,000 and ran for a motor car, but they had not gone 50yds before a bullet pierced a tyre. In a running fight one robber was killed, the second was captured, and the recovered. —Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20054, 20 December 1928, Page 4
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