MOTOR-OAR BANDITS.

Mataura Ensign, 20 July 1914, Page 3

MOTOR-OAR BANDITS.

♦ — DARIXG STREET THEFTS. Two daring highway robberies occurred here a little before noon to-day (stated the. New York correspondent of 'The Daily Mail' on June 5). The first case reported to the police was the theft of £440 from two paymasters of the American Can Company, whose satchel was seized by two men in Fourteenth Street at a weil-frequent-ed corner. The robbers rati to a waiting motor-car and escaped. The vio tims saw the number of the car. Tho other robbery took place in .Brooklyn. Two clerks were carrying the pay-roll of their company in a satchell containing £6OO when two men rushed at tliem. One robber with a revolver forced the clerks to hand over the money. Then the robbers walked briskly to a brown touring car and made off, leaving no clue behind them.