BANDITS FOILED
INCIDENT IN FOG VICTIMS TOO ALERT. LONDON, January 2. Adopting a new trick to-day in Wimbledon, motor car bandits attempted to stage a “ hold-up,” but the intended victims were too resourceful and plucky for them. A saloon car, containing four men and with the windscreen labelled “ Police,” emerged from a fog and blocked the passage of a car in which the accountant of the Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium and his chauffeur were taking £I,OOO to the bank. The quartet leaped out and shouted: “We are police officers. Get into our car,” The accountant yelled “Drive on,” and the gang leader began hammering him with an iron bar. The accountant received the blows on his leg, but snatched a screwdriver from the toolbox and jabbed his assailant in the face. Then he shouted for help, pressed the hooter continuously, and the bandits, becoming scared, fled.
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Evening Star, Issue 21621, 17 January 1934, Page 7
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