BANK CLERK SHOT BY HOLD-UP MAN.
THIEF ATTACKS YOUNG OFFICIALS IN PERTH TRAIN, ESCAPING WITH LOOT.
By Telegraph.—rress Assn.— Copyright.—Aus. and Is'.Z. Cable Assn. (Received June 4, 11.30 a.m.) PERTH, June 4. While two bank clerks were taking money from a suburb of Maylands to Perth by train, one of them, J. R. Greville, aged twenty-two, was suddenly shot in the head and abdomen by a third man in the same compartment. The man then tried to shoot the other clerk, Douglas Favis, but his revolver jammed, and he hit Favis heavily on the head with the butt end of it. When the train arrived at Perth the man jupiped out on the wrong side of the carriage, taking money amounting to £174 with him. A signal man chased him for some distance, but he eventually made his escape. Greville was sent with all haste to hospital, but died an hour later. Favis was only slightly injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17864, 4 June 1926, Page 1
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