TELLER MIT ON HEAD AFTER WARNING SHOT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 6

TELLER MIT ON HEAD AFTER WARNING SHOT

THIEVES ESCAPE WITH ABOUT £2000: GREAT MAN-HUNT (P.A.) ' WANGANUI, March 26. THREE, maybe four, armed masked bandits held up the Bulls branch of the Bank 1 of New Zealand in broad daylight yesterday. They fired one shot at the teller and then hit him over the head and menaced the manager, a staff member and a customer and got away with a substantial amount (estimated at about £2000) in cash. The robbery occurred just after I o'clock, when the bank had re-opened after closing for lunch.

Almost immediately after the bank doors opened a sedan ear drew up at the main entrance. From it stepped three men heavily masked and wearing overcoats. Two were armed with revolvers and a third had a sub-machine gun. Entering the bank, in which there was the teller Mr. Kenneth Allen, a member of the staff, Miss Barbara Carson, and also a client of the bank, Mr. I). W. Wilson, one man covered the client and watched the doorway. One menaced Miss Carson with a revolver and the third fired a shot at the teller which missed.