BANK RAIDS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 December 1924, Page 5

BANK RAIDS.

BANDITS’ RICH HAULS, i BY CARLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT OTTAWA, Dec. 25. Six men drove a motor car to the front of a bank in a mining town at the Nanaimo colleries on’pay day and while two of them guarded the entrance the four others collected £BOO- - escaped across the American border. ■' 1 ■ During the robbery the manager was imprisoned in the / vault, the leader of the >robbers threatening him with characteristically strong language. A sample of the language was communicated to Detective Tennant, of Seattle, who remarked : “I know who that is. He is Ross Watson, a former Seattle policeman”. Later Watson and three other men were arrested and identified by bank officials. Part of the booty has been recovered. NEW YORK; Dec. 25. There was a. bold Christmas hold-up when a single robber calmly walked into the State Bank at/ New Orleans, when the doors opened at nine o’clock yesterday. He took a'shortened shot gun from under his coat, locked four, clerks in' the vault and took away £3OOO. Fortunately the vault was equipped with a device permitting it to be, opened from inside and the employees freed themselves. . When the robber reached the sidewalks the employees shouted for help. A policeman came running up, But the robber wounded-him with buckshot. He then commandered a passing automobile, and compelling the driver to speed with him he escaped.