Street Hold-up

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7

Street Hold-up

SENSATION IN SYDNEY THIEVES ESCAPE WITH CASH Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, Juno 26. A sensational hold-up occurred in Barrack Street, City, this morning. Two men from the Alctropolitan Water and Sewerage Board had just drawn £2OOO from the Bank of New South Wales, and were entering their car when another car containing two men drew up behind it. It is stated that a man from the latter car drew a revolver and pressed it into the back of the driver of the Water Board car, demanding that the I money be handed over. The demand I was resisted, whereupon two shots were ' fired, the driver of the Water Board car being wounded in an arm and his companion struck on the head and rendered unconscious by the other participant in the hold-up. The assailants then seized the bag containing the money and escaped. They were last I seen erosing Prymont Bridge into the outskirts of the city.

ONLY ONE BANDIT REMARKABLE FEATURE. DEFEATED THREE MEN. Received. June 26, 9.22 p.m. SYDNEY, June 26. It now appears that the morning hold-up outside the Bank of New South Wales was accomplished by one man, although he had a confederate round the corner with a motor-car, in which they escaped with £l3OO, not £2OOO. An extraordinary feature, .from the police viewpoint, is how one person, although armed, was capable of defeating three men, one of whom, Eric Green, was armed, and was acting as escort for the Public Works paymaster. According to the story told by Herbert Ward, Public Works paymaster, which was confirmed by the car driver, Edgar Brown, the bandit boarded their car after the money had been drawn from the bank, sat beside the driver in the front seat with a revolver levelled at the driver, and ordered him in broad daylight and within the view of scores of people, to drive round the corner. Ward states that he aimed a blow at the bandit, but missed. Brown received a blow on the head from the butt, of the revolver for not quickly obeying instructions, and wa.s dazed. Then began a struggle with the other two, including Green, who declares that he also received a blow on the head from the revolver, causing a severe abrasion. Ward then seized the bandit’s hand, and the latter’s revolver went off and shot him in the left arm. Green told the police that he had no chance to draw his revolver. The thief hurled the money to the road, leapt from the car, picked it up, transferred it to another car which was moving past, and sped away followed by a solitary pedestrian. Green informed the police that the thief had a wound on the side of the nose, believed to have been caused in the struggle, in Ward’s car.