DARING THEFT OF BANK MONEY
London, May 24. Hundreds of people in London streets to-day watched the swift theft .of 1400 of bank moncx from a lorry delivering cash Io district branches. ! A black car swung in behind the .lorry, and while the vehicles moved through the traffic one man climbed 'into lhe body of the loitv ami heaved lout bags of silver on to (he ear's bonInel. Accomplices in the moving car Received the bags and slowed them in the ear and drove off when the man I climbed hack from the lorry. I The crowd appeared fascinated by the swift sequence of events. The driver of the car, when one bag fell on to the roadway, opened the car's ' door, leaned out and picked up the bag without stopping.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 120, 27 May 1946, Page 5
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