£10,000 ROBBERY
DARING HOLD-UP AT NICE
NICE. August 17
Five men armed with revolvers hold up two employees of the (.eneial Treasury of the Alps Maritimes Department in the crowded Promenade des Anglais in the centre of Nice todt Thcy seized a leather case containing over £lO,OOO and escaped in a waiting car. The two Treasury were returning from the Bank of Prance when the car stopped beside them. Four men jumped out threatened the two employees, while a fifth man, also armed, kept at a distance a young man passing who attempted to give the alarm. A sixth man. with a revolver in his hand, remained at the wheel of the car. They drove off at high speed in the direction of the vegetable market near, where the traffic is particularly dense, and disappeared. The police have a complete description of the men and also of the car, which was stolen from a visitor staying at a hotel at Juan les Pins. Every day the Treasury sends to the local branch of the Bank of France for funds. If more lhan £14,000 is needed the messenger is escorted by 1 a policeman. Afc to-day's sum was less than this he w-as accompanied only by a youthful colleague. The numbers of the banknotes are known.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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