QUEER HOLD-UP
AMERICAN BANK SENSATION THREAT TO USE EXPLOSIVES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyngb NEW YORK, September 8. A mild-looking little man walked into a large mid-town bank during the height of the afternoon rush and patiently waited his turn at the manager’s desk on which he exhibited a large satchel, and whispered; “ 1 have got a bottie of nitro-glycerine up my sleeve and enough dynamite in the bag to blow up the bank. If I don’t get 30.000 dollars I will do it.” The manager agreed, and pretended to go to the vault to obtain the money, but instead telephoned the police. When detectives rushed in the dynamiter fainted, and the police carried him off to hospital. They found 34 sticks of dynamite and 46 percussion caps in the bag and a bottle of dark liquid which was not explosive.
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Evening Star, Issue 23059, 10 September 1938, Page 17
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139QUEER HOLD-UP Evening Star, Issue 23059, 10 September 1938, Page 17
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