DARING ROBBERY IN MELBOURNE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9461, 4 September 1889, Page 5

DARING ROBBERY IN MELBOURNE.

At lunch hour, on August 27, whilst only Gilbert, tho accountant, of the Royal Permanent Building Society, in Elizabeth?«eet; between Little Collins and JJourkefeeUf, Melbourne, was in charge of tho Jjfice, a reapectable-looklng person entered lie oflico, requesting to be permitted to ook over some vacant! offices at the rear of !>°=e occupied by the society. Gilbert ■•"wed him over t0 place.Jand the stranger ' elt dissatisfied with the rooms, but was Ptofuee in his thanks for .the. trouble lat. fc had taken. A few minutes 6 er u QoUier respectable-looking individual ter «l and asked to bo shown over tho atidT tQ - lot " Gilberfc showed him over, „ p "earing tho street-door swing, Jio paid, On^ x ?'" 0 i no for ; a minute ; there's somo■.L m , fc be office." The stranger asked, ■ to e 8 tho matter?" and endeavoured ■etc" o^ 0 '^ m'" conversation as to tei ins, the off accounanfc > however, ran towards foom anc * on rofXCa i n tho secretary's tlj. Bawt «e previous visitor getting round Gji b °" nt ° r and making for the outer door. op ei] * n discovered ;: that the drawer was am,' ( aml t ' iatl several rolls of notes, la th ° Un ß to about" £ '°. had been taken. * d >sann me . a,ltime the second visitor had % $Jf rc<J, The mutter was reported to