ARMED HOLD UP IN SYDNEY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19836, 27 June 1934, Page 9

ARMED HOLD UP IN SYDNEY

DARING ONE-MAN ROBBERY

SUCCESS OF ADVENTURE AMAZES POLICE

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, June 26. A sensational hold-up occurred in Barrack Street, City, this morning. Two men from the Metropolitan Water Sewerage Board had just drawn £2OOO from the Bank of New South Wales, and were entering their car, when another car, containing two men, drew up behind it. It is stated that a man from the latter car drew a revolver and pressed it into the back of the driver of the Water Board car, demanding that the money should be handed over. The demand was resisted, whereupon two shots were fired. The driver of the Water Board ear was wounded In the arm and his companion was struck on the head and rendered unconscious by the other participant of the hold-up. The assailants then seized the bag containing the money and escaped. They were last seen crossing the Prymont bridge into the outskirts of the city.

DARING ESCAPADE. HOLD-UP CARRIED THROUGH BY ONE MAN. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 26, 9.20 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 26. It now appears that this morning’s hold-up outside the Bank of New South Wales was accomplished by one man, although he had a confederate round the corner with a motor car, in which they escaped with £I3OO, not £2OOO. An extraordinary feature from the police viewpoint is how one person, although armed, was capable of defeating three men, one Of whom Eric Green, was an armed escort for the Public Works paymaster. Paymaster’s Story. According to the story told by Herbert Ward, Public Works paymaster, which is confirmed by the car driver, Edgar Brown, the bandit boarded their car after the money had been drawn from the bank and sat beside the driver in the front seat. With a revolver levelled, he ordered the driver, in broad daylight and within the view of scores of peopla, to drive round the corner. Ward states that he aimed a blow at the bandit but missed. Brown received a blow on the head from the butt of the revolver for not quickly obeying instructions. He was dazed and then began to struggle with the other two, including Green, who declares that he also received a blow on the head from a revolver, causing a severe abrasion. . Ward seized the bandit's hand, and the latter’s revolver went off and shot Ward in the left arm. Green told the police that he had no chance to draw his revolver. The thief hurled the money to the road, leapt from the car, picked the money up, transferred it to another car which was moving past, and sped away, followed by a solitary pedestrian. Green informed the police that the thief had a wound on the side of his nose, believed to have been received in the struggle in Ward’s car.