BANK HOLD-UP.
SUSPECT’S DRAMATIC SUICIDE. (United Press Association— By Beetrle Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 29. During Saturday night a masked man entered the Commercial Bank of Australia at Griffith, in the irrigation area, bound and gagged a teller, and escaped with £7OO. During Sunday the police questioned a young man, who suddenly produced a revolver and shot himself close to the heart. He was sent to hospital, where his dying depositions were taken.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18330, 30 July 1929, Page 9
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72BANK HOLD-UP. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18330, 30 July 1929, Page 9
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