ARMED ESCORT SHOT
DARING MELBOURNE lIOLD-UP (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, 31st January. Two bandits shot an armed escort in the head in the city early this evening and escaped with a bag containing £JBOO. The escort, James Soriven, aged 64, is in hospital in a critical condition.
Tim hold-up was a most during one and took place in a crowded street. Scriven was entering a taxi in which a clerk from the office of the Coni roller of Stamps was seated, a money hag between his feet. After the shooting the bandits seized the bag and escaped in a car driven bv a third man. The taxi driver pursued the car, which was soon lost in the traffic. The money was the day's takings at the Stamps Office
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 7
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130ARMED ESCORT SHOT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 7
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