BANDITS RAID

Grey River Argus, 14 December 1928, Page 5

BANDITS RAID

NEW YORK BANK £20,000 Stolen. (Sun Cable.) NEW YORK. December 12. The First National Bank’s armoured car failed to hold money against ten determined bandits who decamped with £20,000. Just after daylight a payroll truck entered Hudson Street, which was deserted. except for a milk waggon. Two bandit cars came from the rear and waited until the milkman had returned from the delivery of an order. The bandits then confronted the milkman with guns and warned him to stand still in silence. Then the bandit cars sped forward, and whirled in ahead of the truck, forcing it to the kerb. The robbers fired several volley?-, which, smashed the plate glass window in the front of the truck, and wounded the driver, who slumped in his scat. Then attacking the rear door, they machine-drilled a hole large enough for a bandit to insert his arm and unlatch the lock.

The residents were just beginning to take notice of the shooting when the robbers decamped.