CRIME'S FLOOD-TIDE

Northern Advocate, 20 August 1929, Page 5

CRIME'S FLOOD-TIDE

DAYLIGHT BANDITRY

BRANCH BANK RAIDED.

PLUCKY CAPTURE EFFECTED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) ADELAIDE, August 19. There was a daring daylight holdup today at the Norwood branch of the Bank of Adelaide. Two men, one armed with a revol-

ve'r and the other carrying a file

wrapped in brown paper, entered the , 'bank, the manager of which, Mr L. Cliitterbnck, was alone at the time. The robber with the file struck him on the head and dazed him, but Mr Cluttorbuck had already pressed the alarm bell with his foot, summoning a neighbouring shopkeeper, who telephoned to detectives. The robbers stole £2OB and were departing over the hack fence when ■a plucky citizen named Crocker, having heard of the raid, caught and held one man. The latter’s confederate ran away to a taxicab and escaped, but later the taxicab driver was arrested on a charge of complicity. The robber whom Mr Crocker caught had £lB6 in his pockets.

BRUTAL DESPERADOS.

MAN’S POCKETS EMPTIED,

LARGE SUM OVERLOOKED,

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 19,

James Stewart, aged 79, a rent collector, was brutally assaulted and robbed today of £5 at his home in Paddington, Stewart had just returned home after collecting rents when two masked young men broke into the place, knocked him down, kicked him and rifled his pockets, but riiissed a large sum in another part of the house.