BANDITS FOILED
BRAVE LAD’S PERSISTENCE. LONDON, December 8. The bravery of Kenneth Subert, aged 19, led to the dispersal of six motor bandits and their abandoning their booty after a struggle at Stoke Newington (North London). Subert saw the gang loading stolen silk worth £450 into a stolen motor van outside a pyjama manufacturer’s establishment, and returned with a constable, who seized one of the men. The remainder, using a jemmy, violently rescued him, and the gang leaped into the van and started off. Subert, however, sprang on to the footboard, clung to the wheel, despite a rair of blows in the face, and swerved the van so that it crashed into a wall, whereupon the bandits escaped in the fog and darkness.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 11
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123BANDITS FOILED Otago Daily Times, Issue 19977, 20 December 1926, Page 11
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