A GIRL BANDIT
BANK HOLD-UP ATTEMPT. COLLAPSE AFTER STRUGGLE. When the Rockhampton branch of the Commercial Bank of Australia opened on a recent morning a young girl entered, and, advancing to the counted*, asked. the teller, a young man named Cunningham, for some deposit slips. The teller gave the girl the slips, and she turned to go out, but a few moments later, as he went to tho safe, which opens just behind tho counter, the girl covered him with a email revolver, and said, “Hands up.” Cunningham said: “Not on your life,” and promptly seized the revolver with his left hand below the trigger, and engaged in a desperate struggle with' the girl, who -did not desist until Cunningham forced the weapon from her. She then collapsed. Tho police arrested the girl, who has since made a written statement.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 11
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