BANK HELD UP.
CASE IN VICTORIA. THE TELLER WOUNDED. United Press Association, MELBOURNE, Ndvember 28. Robbers entered the Commercial Bank at Hampden just -as the teller William Almeida, was closing the premises. They demanded the hank’s money. Almeida resisted and was seriously wounded in the chest by a revolver shot. Notwithstanding this he chased the men. He overtook a man whom he thought had been concerned in the affair and marched him back to the bank at the point of a revolver. The teller collapsed Just before handing the man over to the police. It is pot known whether anything was stolen. The police have made an arrest. I
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 5
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