HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
OUTRAGE IN IRELAND,
BANK MANAGERS ROBBED,
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Thursday, 9.15 a.m.)
LONDON, Wednesday.
The biggest highway robbery during recent years occurred in North-West Cork.
Masked thieves wearing clothes inside out and bags tied over their boots, held up two bank managers going to a fair and robbed them of £18,000. '
The managers were armed with revolvers but were gagged and tied up to the wheel of a cart while the highwaymen emptied the moneybags and escaped.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13983, 20 November 1919, Page 5
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