CRIMES IN AUSTRALIA.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17810, 7 September 1929, Page 7

CRIMES IN AUSTRALIA.

RECENT BANK RAID.

STAFF'S COURAGE RECOGNISED. (Australian Press association.) SYDNEY, Sept. G. The commissioners of the Government Savings Bank, Sydney have provided gifts of £l5O each for Mr N. Everitt, the manager, and Mr T. Holdsgrove, the assistant at the branch at Woollahra, in recognition of their plucky action in resisting the armed men who tried to rob the bank yesterday.

BANDITS SENTENCED.

IMPRISONED FOR FIVE YEARS

(Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Sept. 6

William Wilton, aged 29, and William Nelson, aged 00, who were convicted of robbery under arms at Michael Brigg's butcher's shop at Redfern on August 5, were to-day each sentenced to imprisonment for five years.

Two masked robbers, who had secreted themselves in the shop at Redfern owned by Michael Briggs, on August 5 bound and gagged Briggs, covered him with revolvers, and commenced to hunt for cash. The intruders discovered a bottle of whisky and impudently consumed a large portion of the contents.

A woman neighbour heard the men threatening Briggs, and she telephoned to the police, who dashed to the scene in a motor-car. They arrested the bandits, but not before a shot had been fired by one of them at the woman who had given the alarm.