THE SYDNEY HOLD-UP

Kaikoura Star, Volume LIV, Issue 51, 2 July 1934, Page 3

THE SYDNEY HOLD-UP

WORK OF ONE MAN. SYDNEY, June 26. A sensational hold-up took place in Barrack Street in the city this morning, when two men from the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, who had just drawn £l3OO from the Bank of New South Wales, were robbed of the sum by a bandit armed with a revolver, who entered their car before it started to move off. In the course of a Strugs gle with the three men in the car, the intruder’s revolver was discharged and one of the occupants was wounded in the left arm. It appears that the hold-up was accomplished by one man, although he had a confederate round the corner with a motor-car, in which ho escaped with the £l3OO. An extraordinary question from the police viewpoint is how one person, although armed, was capable of defeating three men, one of whom, Erie Green, was an armed escort for the Public Works paymaster. PAYMASTER’S STOPY. According to the story told by Herbert Ward, the Public Works paymaster, which is confirmed by the car driver, Edgar Brown, the bandit boarded their car after the money was drawn from the bank and sat beside the driver in the front seat, his revolver levelled at the driver, and ordered him in broad daylight and within view of scores of people to drive round the corner. Ward states that he aimed a blow at the bandit, but missed. Brown received a blow on the head from the butt of the revolver for not quickly obeying instructions and was dazed.

Then began a struggle with the other two, including Green, who declares that he also received a blow on the head from the revolver, causing g severe abrasion. Ward seized the bandit ’s hand and the latter's revolver went off and shot him in the left arm. Green told the police he had no chance to draw his revolver.

The thief hurled the money to the road, leapt from the car, picked it up, and transferred it to another car which was moving past. It sped away, followed by a solitary pedestrian, and was last seen crossing Pyrmont bridge into the outskirts of the city. Green informed the police that the thief had a wound on the side of his nose, believed to have been caused in the stiuggle in Ward’s car.

SHOT AT BANDIT *S CAR. SYDNEY, June 27. Green has now told the police that he fired a revolver shot through the back of the bandits’ car and the police believe that the thief was wounded in the nose. All roads in the State are being watched.