BANK ROBBERY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 22 (Supplement)

BANK ROBBERY.

THREE GUNMEN’S RAID. OFFICIALS CAPTURED. Footsteps outside his bedroom door at 4 a.m. wakened the manager of the National Bank at Taghmou, near Wexford. Opening the door he was held up by three masked men, two with rifles and one with a revolver. Still in his pyjamas, they compelled him to go with them downstairs to the bank safe,- where they found that his key would not open it unless used with that of the cashier, who lodged in another part of the little town. ..So they' marched him through the sleeping town to tlie cashier’s lodgings, woke aiul captured that official, and then marched both back to the bank. Here they compelled the manager and cashier to open the safe, cleared it of every penny, over £I2OO in all, and then escaped in a car before the alarm could be released. Mr. George Love, the manager, told a graphic story of his experience from the time he opened his bedroom door. Armed Guard Over Wife. “Having found my key would not open the safe,” he said, “tlie men ordered me to go with them to Mr. Conry (the cashier’s), lodgings. One raider remained in the bank on guard over Mrs. Love. At Mr. Conry’s lodgings they knocked at the door and made me stand out on the footpath while they hid against the wall. Mr. Conry saw only me, and came down and opened the door. “One raider jammed a boot in it, and they threatened to shoot through the door if it was not opened. They took us back to the bank and forced us at the point of a gun to open the safe. They took everything, notes, silver and copper. When they left they ordered no one to move until daybreak, but soon after their departure we went for the guards.”