DARING ROBBERIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1929, Page 5

DARING ROBBERIES

SYDNEY’S MASKED BANDIT PUNCHES WOULD-BE CAPTORS (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 31. A sensational hold-up occurred at the White Bay Garage, at Balmain, tonight, by a masked armed bandit, who, after covering three employees with a revolver, stole ’'“£3s from the cash register. The employees pursued the bandit, who, although he fired two shots, was overtaken. He punched his pursuers off, then escaped in a waiting motor. CANADIAN ROBBERS’ MISTAKE VANCOUVER, July 30. Mistaking a paymaster’s cai’ for a bank car, carrying a monthly pay roll, five unmasked bandits staged a daring hold-up in. the Canadian Pacific railway yards to-day, and escaped, after waging a gun battle, with £91,520 in cheques, which were worthless to them. The bank car was to follow a short while later, with currency for employees’ salaries. The hold-up was one of the most daring in Canadian crime annals. INDIAN CRIMINAL SHOT. DELHI, July 31. After defying the police for 15 years, Devi' Das, the notorious leader of an armed band of robbers was killed at Ferozepore, in the Punjab. He offered a stout resistance, killing two constables and seriously wounding two others. The police trapped members of the gang in a house. After a five hours’ battle they bored a hole in the wall, made a fire and smoked the robbers out. When they entered they found the leader dead, hb having died of wounds. The others were arrested.