DARING ROBBERY IN BANK

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1929, Page 9

DARING ROBBERY IN BANK

GRUBBY HAND OVER SHOULDER. Reaching over the shoulder of a customer about 2.36 o’clock one afternoon last week, a thief snatched three £UJ banknotes off the counter at the Bank of New South Wales, George and Bathurst Streets, Sydney, and decamped. Later on a man found a fully loaded seven-chambered revolver lying between the tram rails. It is supposed that the thief discarded the weapon during his flight. Mr. J. E. Smith visited the bank to make a deposit on behalf of his employer, Mr. N. H. Ovenham. He had laid the money on the counter in front of him ready to push it through the grille to the teller, when suddenly a grubby shot over his shoulder and seized the banknotes. Mr. Smith turned barely in time to see a man rushing out of the doorway. He and another depositor gave chase. The thief ran along George Street, and although the thoroughfare was crowded the two pursuers were able to keep the runaway in view. One of them, indeed, was rapidly gaining on the man, but just as it appeared that he would overtake him some of the people in the street, believing that the leading pursuer was the pursued, tried to capture him, and in so doing gave the thief an