BANK BOLDLY ROBBED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 746, 20 August 1929, Page 9

BANK BOLDLY ROBBED

MANAGER HIT ON HEAD WITH FILE CITIZEN CAPTURES THIEF (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) ADELAIDE, Monday. A daring robbery was perpetrated today at the Norwood branch of the Bank of Adelaide. Two men, one of whom was armed with a revolver, and the other with a file wrapped in brown paper, entered the bank. The manager, Mr. L. Clutterbuck, was alone at the time. The robber with the file struck Mr. Clutterbuck on the head. The blow dazed him, but he already had pressed an alarm bell with his foot. The bell summoned a neighbouring shopkeeper, who telephoned to the city detectives’ office. The thieves stole a sum of £2OB, and were making their escape over a back fence when a plucky citizen, Mr. Crocker, who had heard of the raid, caught and held one man. The second robber ran away to a taxicab and escaped. Later in the day the driver of the cab was arrested on a charge of complicity in the crime. The man whom Mr. Crocker caught had £lB6 in his pockets. OLD MAN KNOCKED DOWN ASSAULT AND ROBBERY IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Monday. A brutal assault was committed today upon Mr. James Stewart, aged 79, a rent collector, at his home in Paddington. Mr. Stewart had just returned after collecting some rents when two young men, who wore masks, broke into the house. They knocked him down, kicked him, and rifled his pockets. The assailants stole £5, but missed a large sum of money which was kept in another part of the house.