ROBBERY AT A POST OFFICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10957, 27 April 1907, Page 7 (Supplement)

ROBBERY AT A POST OFFICE.

£350 WORTH OF POSTAL ORDERS STOLEN. LONDON, March 15. A daring robbery was committed at the Upper Baker-street Post Office, W., last evening. I At the hour of closing the office — 8.30— a respectably dressed man, about | forty-five years of age, entered und asked for a stamp. Noticing that one of the assistants was engaged m settling up accounts for the day, and that, she had m her hand a large number oi postal orders, he leaned over the counter, snatched the bundle from her grasp and dashed out of the office. The orders were of the face value of £350. • There were three persons m the office at the time, but neither they nor the assistants 'behind the counter realised what had happened, for the moment. A man who was passing along Bakavstreet noticed the thief rush from the post, pffic^and^attempted un^qecessf ully to stop him. tie was quickly out of-sight, and has not yet .been»traced. „ liiformatibhv Wag : given . -to the police immediately^ and inspector Horton and other officers took .the/matter-, in hand. The authorities at St. Martin's -le-G'rana were^also communicated with;.; andHhe special detective staff of the department are co-operating with theTocal polid6 The numbers of the postal prders^are kriown, and steps have beeh' takeh: to prevent any attempt to negotiate .them. They are valueless iri any case. ' Thosa Which had been paid-in had- been killed" as mediums of exchange, and as'tho hew orders -Were, of course,-; Unstamped, they could not be cashed at a post-of-fice even if the thief were possessed of a facsimile of the post, office, stamp. , !Every;post office m the kingdom w as advisea of the occurrence iriimediately.