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ROBBED THE BANK.

TELLER SENT TO GAOL. B.v Telegraph—Press Assn.-Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 30. 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 30. Chittoek, formerly teller at the Canterbury branch of the Commercial Bonk, was sentenced to eighteen months’ gaol. On entering the Canterbury branch or the Commercial Bank one morning towards the end, of July, the manager, Mr Morgan, found the telephone out of order, and a few minutes later a. neighbouring shopkeeper told him he was wanted by tlia head office on the shop telephone. When Mr Morgan left to answer the call. Chittoek entered the hank, and (according to his story afterwards) was confronted by an armed man. who told him not to move or he would he shot. The intruder then snatched the bank’s revolver from the wall and grabbed a handful of notes from a drawer. Chittoek rushed for another revolver in the manager’s room, and as he secured it the robber closed with him. Chittoek fired a shot, but missed, and the man replied with two r.-hots, wounding Chittoek in the foot and hand. The thief then escaped Subsequently Chittoek was arrested and charged with the theft of £522.

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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 30 September 1924, Page 7

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ROBBED THE BANK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 30 September 1924, Page 7

ROBBED THE BANK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 30 September 1924, Page 7

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