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  • The stoppage of the [[Banks- local branch|bank]] in Melbourne this week we fear is but the forerunner of many heavy failur
    3 KB (410 words) - 21:00, 20 November 2015
  • ...off side. I know by the shape it was not a Colt's bullet. I believe   the bank manager and his clerk have Webley revolvers.
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  • '''STARTLING ROBBERY OF THE LANCEFIELD BANK''' ...two men led not only the general public but the police to believe that the bank had been robbed by Edward Kelly and Stephen Hart, but later accounts sent o
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  • ...ms were received by Mr '''Turner''', the general manager of the Commercial Bank, who went to Lancefield by the afternoon train. Along with the police were ...bles, one mounted and the other on foot. Notwithstanding all this care the bank was stuck up this morning and robbed Lancefield is a much more populous pla
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  • ...satisfied, but the fact was that there was altogether about £4,000 in the bank at the time. ...he Lancefield road, about a mile to the north of the township, entered the bank at the front door.
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  • ...about to become so unpleasantly acquainted with. He then returned into the bank, and engaged in some routine work behind the counter. He was quite alone, M About 10 or 15 minutes past 10 o'clock two men entered the bank. The first was a tall young man, with little if any hair on his face, which
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  • ...satisfied, but the fact was that there was altogether about £4,000 in the bank at the time. ...he Lancefield road, about a mile to the north of the township, entered the bank at the front door.
    5 KB (770 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2015
  • ...f the door. Fortunately for Mr Musty they did not divine his errand to the bank, and did not search him. As soon as they left him alone in the room he thou ...or heard nothing of the affair, although he was within a few yards of the bank when it took place, and no one was more surprised and incredulous than he w
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  • ...e of them replied, 'We will not shoot you but be quiet.' I saw none of the bank officers present. The men made me sit down on a chair in the managers room ...nd they seemed to have only one revolver each. Mr Carlisle states that the bank was well provided with arms. There was a revolver on the ledger desk and an
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  • ...as been discovered as to the identity of the men who robbed the Commercial Bank at Lancefield on Friday, but the police have reason to believe that they ar THE LANCEFIELD BANK ROBBERY
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  • As time wore on, news of the bank robbers having been seen at different places carne to hand, and from all th ...the two men approaching, and ran in, calling out to their parents that the bank robbers were coming.
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  • Two men supposed to be the Lancefield bank robbers have been traced by the black trackers to within a few miles of Hea
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  • ...rage. In the first place we are surprised at the carelessness displayed by bank authorities in leaving their branch establishments unprovided with any effi ...has said that he felt a little frightened when he went into the Lancefield bank at fist, but when he saw the fear of the people inside he got all right aga
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  • ...commended that Lowe's photograph should be shown to the authorities of the bank at Lancefield, as he was under the impression that he was one of the offend ...ng the bank read, Mr W Brown intimated that he appeared for the Commercial Bank. Sergeant Webb, however, applied for a remand for a week on the grounds tha
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  • ...ey freely, and without any hesitation whatever, gave a full account of the bank robbery, together with a statement of their subsequent proceedings, and Bra ...as drawn into the affair by Lowe. The men originally determined to rob the bank at Heathcote. With this object they started from Melbourne on the evening o
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  • ...Bray had no weapon of any kind. All he had in his hand when he entered the bank, besides the pocket book, was a clay pipe. Lowe had a revolver, and, accord ..., brought up from the depths of Lowe's over coat pocket, together with the bank notes, at the lock up-and states that they reached Tooboorak, a place betwe
    4 KB (669 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ..., he sent a despatch to the Sandhurst police by Mr Mendell, manager of the Bank of Victoria.
    4 KB (641 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ch of his hand, was the revolver which Lowe had in his possession when the bank was robbed. All five chambers were loaded. The police party consisted of De ...over the place where he had thrown his top coat containing the keys of the bank safe and some documents which had been taken with the money. After driving
    4 KB (582 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • ...ome people that the Kellys never crossed the river again after robbing the bank at Jerildene. It is considered that, as the horses were bred in New South W
    3 KB (475 words) - 21:05, 20 November 2015
  • "Some of the bank managers must feel rather nervous just now." "Well, yes, as there ...can be arrived at and that is that this money is part of the spoil of the bank robberies and has found its way to them, either directly or indirectly, thr
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