ROBBERS OUTWIT POLICE
ESCAPE AMID FUSILADE OF BULLETS United Press Association—By Electric TelegrapU—Copyright (Received November 19, 11.40 p.m.) MELBOURNE, November 19. Leaping into a- high-powered motor car and ignoring a fusilade of bullets fired by the police, two masked robbers escaped with £BOO worth of tobacco and cigarettes from D. Cohen’s tobacco store in Swan Street, Richmond, this morning. Whether any shots took effect is not known. The police had hidden in the vicinity of the shop owing to a mysterious message received by an employee last week, stating: “Your shop will be raided over the week end.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 7
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98ROBBERS OUTWIT POLICE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 7
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