RAID ON PARIS BANK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19025, 27 May 1936, Page 14

RAID ON PARIS BANK

GANG’S MIDDAY ROBBERY £3500 HAUL SECURED PARIS, April 14. Five young men, all waiters or barmen have been arrested and charged witl having committed a peculiarly audaciou. bank robbery in l'ans on January 16. At midday on that day two youths en tered the branch office of the I’unqui de Credit ludustriello el Commerciale ii the Boulevard St. Germain and began t< folk to the cashier. A moment late; three more men ran in. Two of them are alleged to have heh up the staff with revolvers while the twi who had first entered emptied the cad drawers. The fifth man tied up mem hers of the staff with cord one. by on and propped them in a row again:-:! tli

wall. The men then gathered up all the money that had been found, amountin' to about £3s(r. and drove off in r motor car. A man named Guy Paul Predanf. wh bad been under susoi i"n f"'"" P c ginning, was arrested last b riclay. He hnallv admitted that, while taking, w part himself in the raid, he had received about £l3 fioin Maurice Prenant alleged to be the leader of (lie gam'. Prenant and another man. . Pici"’' T eieune. were arrested earlv this morn ing at Cannes. Two men, Paul Fleuro' and Joseph Charpenticr, were arrested ir Paris.