MONTREAL BANK ROBBED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 4

MONTREAL BANK ROBBED

BANDITS LOCK MEN IN VAULT MANAGER UNSCREWS BOLT WITH COIN MONTREAL, Oct. 26. A swiftly executed hold-up on Tuesday secured for three unmasked men the sum of £2400 in cash, and bonds valued at £3OO, when they swooped down on a branch of La Banque Ca.uadienno Nationale, Cheerier street, locked the manager and five employees in the vault, scooped up the money and edDetectives, armed with a description, are scouring the city in an effort to arrest the men, who had about an hour’s start before the ‘robbery was reported to the police. It took tho hank staff that long to release themselves from tho vault. Only the staff was in the bank when a man entered, walked over to the teller and presented a cheque. He glanced about, saw there were no eusto»ers, and made an unobtrusive motion'W' his companions outside. They entered.

•One drew a sawed-off shotgun from under his topcoat and commanded the staff to put their hands up and keep quiet. The staff was then shepherded into the strong box, the door of which was locked. All the money in the teller’s till and two bonds of the City of Three Rivers were picked up. Using a 25-eent piece as a screw driver, the manager. L. M. Diorme, succeeded in removing the screws from the back of the vault door, thus undoing the combination and releasing the prisoners