ENGLISH BANDITS
Steal £23,476 IN PUBLIC STREET (Ansi. A N.Z. Cable Assn). LONDON, April 25. The wave of banditry continues Throughout Britain. A Portsmouth bank clerk was carrying a bag containing £20.000, in broad daylght, when a car containing four men pulled up. One jumped out, snatched the bag, re-entered the car and sped away. The messenger jumped on the running board, but was pushed off and injured. LONDON, April 26. Britain’s biggest street robbery occurred when four motor bandits at tacked a bank clerk in broad day light in. a busy Portsmoutn street. The bandits stole £23,476 in banknotes with which they sped off at sixty miles an hour. Accompanying the clerk was an elderly bank messenger, who jumped on to the escaping «a. running board, but he was knocked unconscious.
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Grey River Argus, 27 April 1932, Page 6
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