IMPUDENT ROBBERY.
WITNESSED BY THE POLICE. THIEVES' SKILFUL TRICK. NEW YORK, Dec. 29. " Hold-ups " have been for so long a daily feature of New York life that any new method would be thought impossible. But the city bandit is most alert and can always be relied upon to provide something new. This is the latest expedient, and one of the cleverest. While one member of u gang nonchalantly turned the crank of a cinema earners I { OU r of hi 3 companions lined 20 member;, of a political club against a wall, keeping them covered with guns. The four thieves emptied the politicians' pockets in view of an amused crowd of onlookers. Several policemen, thinking they were witnessing some excellent acting, laughed at the victims' discomfiture.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 9
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126IMPUDENT ROBBERY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19217, 5 January 1926, Page 9
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