ROBBING A BANK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8148, 24 May 1906, Page 3

ROBBING A BANK.

Router's corresopndent gives a picturesque account of the armed attack on the Mutual Credit Society's Bank in Moscow in March. Armed young men, apparently belonging to tne educated classes, entered the bank with Brownings and Mausers in their hands, ~ and, threatening the EMPLOYEES WITH BOMBS, which they took out of their pockets and fastened to the buttons of their overcoats, abstracted from the safe £87,500, about £SOO in gold and the remainder in 100 and 500-rouble notes. Usually the work of the day at the bank closes at four o'clock in the afternoon. The president and the members of the administration left at the usual hour. The director, the chief cashier and some others, in all about 100 people, remainded. About five o'clock several young men entered by different doors. A policeman WHO SEIZED THE FIRST TWO was disarmed. Simultaneously all the messengers and other polioemen were seized in the lower vestibule. Resistance was impossible. At all the counters armed men were placed, pointing their weapons at the employees. One plaoed his Mauser revolver on the counter, and, drawing from his pocket a small tin box WITH A FUSE, said that if the slightest resistance was offered, the whole plaoo would be blown into the air. The loader of the band went through both halls shouting, "Quiet, hands up." Then, he; added, "Gentlemen, we have come here in the name of the revolutionary committee. We require money for the success of our oauEe. We will not touch you, but if tne slightest resistance is offered, all will perish." Throe wentto the treasury, PLACED A LARGE BOMB on the table, and said that on the slightest resistance it would be exploded and the place blown into the air. When the armed band saw that the leaders had left with money, they drew up in two rows and. compelled all the employees to cross over from the large hall into the cash store room, saying; that if anyone moved before fit teen minutes, the others on duty, would throw a bomb. The employees were huddled together in the cash room, j and the plunderers left before the j very eyes of the policeman and porter whom they had arrested in the | vestibule. It was the cool daring of the robbery that ensured its success.