ARMED ROBBERIES

Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19545, 6 April 1935, Page 7

ARMED ROBBERIES

SENSATION IN MELBOURNE BANK TELLERS HELD UP. THIEVES SECURE £1725. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MELBOURNE, April 5. A sensational armed robbery occurred at the entrance to the Collins Street East branch of the Bank oi Australasia to-day. While two tellers were carrying a bag containing silver and notes valued at £1725 from a tramcar into the bank two armed men accosted them and demanded the bag, at the same time 'Covering them with revolvers. Although the tellers were armed they were so startled and nonplussed that they parted with the bag before they actually realised what was going on.

The robbers made their escape in a high-powered motor-car which was waiting in the vicinity, but an arrest was made later.

PANDITS ON TRAIN. CASH AND JEWELLERY TAKEN. CHICAGO, April 4. Four bandits operating in the oldfashioned Western desperado style, committed a daring railway robbery to-day. Boarding an express train at Chicago, they systematically went through five carriages stealing thousands of dollars worth of cash and jewellery from the passengers. One passenger who assumed that the hold-up was a joke was shot and seriously wounded. The robbery occupied half an hour. The bandits then escaped as the train slowed down near a station. WOUNDED ON HEAD. DESPERATE THIEVES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received April 6, 10.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 6. Alfred V. Boddington, proprietor of a garage at Bendigo, was fired at from close range and wounded in f the head while preventing two men from stealing his till.