NEW YORK BANDITS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20591, 14 December 1928, Page 9

NEW YORK BANDITS

BANK CAR HELD UP. TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS STOLEN; (United Pres* Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) . NEW YORK, December 12. (Received Dec, 14, at 1 a.m.) The First National Bank’s armoured car failed to hold money against 10 determined bandits,- who decamped with £20,000. • Ju&t after daylight the' pay-roll truck entered Hudson street, which was deserted except for a milk wagon. Two bandit cars came from the rear and waited until the milkman had returned from, the delivery of an order. The bandits then confronted the milkman with guns and warned him to stand still in silence. Then the bandit cars oped, forward and whirled in ahead of the truck, forcing it to the kerb. The robbers'fired several volleys, which smashed the plateglass window in frpnt of the truck and wounded the driver, wHo slumped in his seat. Then,- attacking the rear door, they machine-drilled a hole large enough for a bandit to insert his arm and unlatch the lock.

Tho residents were just beginning to taka notice of the shooting when the robbers decamped.—-United Service.