PAYROLL ROBBERY

Evening Star, Issue 21822, 11 September 1934, Page 9

PAYROLL ROBBERY

TWO MEN DETAINED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 10. Local detectives have received cabled advice from Vancouver that the police, acting upon instructions from Sydney, detained two men upon their arrival by the Aorangi on Thursday in connection. with the payroll robbery outside the Bank of New South Wales here last June. The men, with their wives and families, comprise a party of seven. [Two men from the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board had just drawn £2,000 from the Bank of New South Wales, and were entering their car, when another car containing two men drew up behind it. It was stated that a man from the latter car drew a revolver and pressed it into the back of the driver of tbo Water Board’s car, demanding that the money bo handed over. The demand was resisted, whereupon two shots were fired. The driver of the Water Board’s car was wounded in the arm, and his companion was struck on the head and rendered unconscious by the other participant in the hold-up. The assailants seized the bag containing the money an,d escaped.]