REMARKABLE OUTRAGES PERPETRATED.
(By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association )£ LONDON, Sunday.
A remarkable series of daring rob-* beries occurred yesterday. A matt. Arent into the Yorkshire Penny Bank iru Leeds as it was closing, called oufc"Hands Up!" and covered the mana-r ger, two clerks and a woman assistant*
Avith a revolver. The manager tried, rush the intruder, but was shot through,, the head. The man then locked th<*clerks in a room, seized £400, and drovoraw.ay in a taxi, waiting outside, the-* driver of Avhich did not know anything"' unusual had happened.
Another robbery of £10,000 worth of" jewellery from the bedroom of a housoin Cadogan square occurred early in the> evening, while the household was aboutTho thief climbed the portico, entered, the first floor and'escaped.
In another case a couple of thievein Birmingham carried away a safe containing £440 from a restaurant while* the diners were looking on. No one suspected anything was wrong.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 14004, 15 December 1919, Page 5
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