PRISON FOR 12 YEARS.
ATTEMPT TO ROB BANK.
SENTENCE ON THREE MEN
(Received November 23, 9.45 p.m.)
SYDNEY. Nov. 28. Charles Passmore aged 57, Joseph Williams, 29, and William Poe, 24, were to-day convicted ■ at the Sydney Criminal Court of attempting while armed to rob the Woollahra branch of the Government Savings Bank on September 5. Each accused was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 years.
Three masked men held up the manager and the assistant at the Woollahra branch of (ho Government Savings Bank on September 5. The assistant, Mr. Thomas Holdsgrove, reached for a revolver which was under the counter and was shot in the leg. The men then fired at the manager, Mr. N. Everitt, and a bullet grazed his arm. Apparently nonplussed by the unexpected resistance of the bank staff the men hurried away without attempting to raid the bank's funds, and escaped in a motor-car, which, with the engine running, had been left in front of the bank. The commissioners of the Government Savings Bank provided gifts of £l5O each for Mr. Everitt and Mr. Holdsgrove in recognition of their plucky action in resisting the armed men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 13
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191PRISON FOR 12 YEARS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 13
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