CLEVER ROBBERY

Grey River Argus, 31 July 1924, Page 5

CLEVER ROBBERY

AT MELBOURNE BANK. BY CFTTINCt TELEPHONE. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assu.) (Received July 30 at 9.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 30 By a (lexer ruse, the Canterbury Bruncii of the Commercial Bank was robbed of £5OO .n. single and live pound notes. When he arrived in the mojnirig. Hie manager, Air Morgan, found that th*' telephone was mil of order, and a few minu’es ’aler a neighbouring shopkeeper told him that hr was xvaiGed by the Head Office on Hie shop telephone. When Mr Morgan left to go to the telephone, Hie teller, Air \x . C. Chittack, enter the bank, but he was confronted by an armed man, who told him not to move, or he xvould be shot. The intruder then snatched the bank revolver from the wall, and grabbed a handful of notes from the drawer. Chat lick rushed for another rcxolver in the manager’s room, and, as he secured it, the robber clcsed with him. Chattick fired a shot, but no miscd, and th-' man replied with two shots, wounding Chat tick in the foot and land. The thief then escaped through 1 he bank door. The robbery had cvi< ently been carefully planned, as the bank telephone wires xvere cut, and the manager found, he went to the shop, that lie was not wanted, a telephone accomplice having apparently rung him to decoy him from the bank, while the other must have obtained an entrance to the bank in the early hours of the morning.