DARING DOES IT.
BLUFF WORTH £2COO,
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 19.
A new stunt won £2OOO for a nervy robber who sauntered nonchalantly into the Rank of Italy yesterday afternoon. , , Laying a black satchel against the teller’s window, he said, “I want you hoys tQ know I mean business, live got an infernal machine in this bag, and have my finger on the catch. If I. press it we all go to hell -together.” Tlie tellers accompanied . him to the door, and warned passers-by away from the. mysterious satchel. They then called the police, and found the “infernal machine” to bo stuffed with old papers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10736, 6 November 1928, Page 5
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