BANK ROBBED.
TWO MEN HOLD UP MANAGER. ONE IS CAPTURED WHILE ESCAPING. * United Pro*a ■ARftO'iation — 13y Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (A ustralinn Freae Association.) ADELAIDE, Aug. 19. A daring daylight bank hold-up occurred at the Norwood branch of the Bank of Adelaide to-day. Two men, one armed with a revolver and the other carrying a file 'wrapped in brown paper, entered the bank, in which the manager, L. Olutterbuck, was alone at the ■time.
The robber with the file struck him oa the head and dazed him, but Air Ciutterbuek had already pressed an alarm bell with his foot, summoning a neighbouring shopkeeper, who telephoned the detectives. The robbers stole £2OB and were departing over a back fence when a plucky citizen named Crocker, having beard of the raid, caught and held one man.
The confederate ran away to a taxicab and escaped, but later the taxi-cab driver was arrested on a charge of complicity. The robber whom Air Crocker caught had. £lB6 in his packet .
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 20 August 1929, Page 5
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165BANK ROBBED. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 20 August 1929, Page 5
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