FOUR MEN DETAINED: QUEENSLAND BANK ROBBERY CHARGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1948, Page 6

FOUR MEN DETAINED: QUEENSLAND BANK ROBBERY CHARGE

BRISBANE, October 12.

The police have detained four men in connection with the robbery from the bank at Samford, 16 miles from Brisbane, yesterday afternoon, when £350 was stolen in an armed hold-up. It is understood that most of the stolen money has been recovered. The four men who held up the bank and escaped in a car are believed to have changed cars outside the town to cover their tracks. Two miles outside the town they set fire to the stolen car which they used for the robbery and transferred to what the police believe to be a green truck which they had parked there. The bank manager, Mr J. Milford, said that after three men had entered the bank one of them, wearing sun-glasses, a hat, and a mask, and holding a revolver in each hand, jumped on the bank counter. The other two men carried revolvers, but they did not wear masks. They pressed their weapons into the backs of the manager and his assistant, while the masked man ransacked the strongroom. Then they forced the bank officers into the strongroom and locked the door. Mrs Milford released the officers 10 minutes later.