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Hold-up scene: A policeman removes broken glass from a door police smashed to get into a bank during a robbery attempt in North York yesterday
Hold-up scene: A policeman removes broken glass from a door police smashed to get into a bank during a robbery attempt in North York yesterday

Hold-up scene: A policeman removes broken glass from a door police smashed to get into a bank during a robbery attempt in North York yesterday

Date4/29/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hold-up scene: A policeman removes broken glass from a door police smashed to get into a bank during a robbery attempt in North York yesterday.
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
Medium
Photographs
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0120539F
Bank closed: Toronto Dominion bank branch sports a Closed Due To Robbery sign in its window as one policeman lets a fellow officer in to conduct an investigation
Bank closed: Toronto Dominion bank branch sports a Closed Due To Robbery sign in its window as one policeman lets a fellow officer in to conduct an investigation
Dunlop, Al
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Scene of bank robbery at Canadian Bank of Commerce in King, Ont.
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Holdup Aftermath: Peel police take fingerprints from the scene of last November Hongkong Bank of Canada robbery, in which a bank customer was shot
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Toronto Star (Firm)
11/4/1993
The bank that was robbed becomes a part of the lower lobby of Union Station when six glass doors slide aside to open it for business. It is on the nor(...)
The bank that was robbed becomes a part of the lower lobby of Union Station when six glass doors slide aside to open it for business. It is on the nor(...)
Barkley, Harold
10/18/1972
Ordeal Ends: An employee gets a hug following a robbery and hostage-taking at a Thornhill bank last night
Ordeal Ends: An employee gets a hug following a robbery and hostage-taking at a Thornhill bank last night
Lautens, Richard
7/4/1990
Bullet-ridden van: Policeman holds the jacket discarded by bank robber who got away in Yorkville after police chased him and two accomplices in the black van shown in background
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Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
3/12/1981
Crime - Robbery - Banks - Canada - Kenora
Crime - Robbery - Banks - Canada - Kenora
Dutton, Don
5/11/1973
Wearing leg chain, and with his hands handcuffed behind his back, bank robbery suspect is led away by policemen
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Ross, Fred
n.d.
Shooting suspect is escorted to cells by police officer after a shoot-out in Scarborough following a bank robbery yesterday. Three police constables a(...)
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
1/29/1971
Detectives' chalk marks on the ground show where Dr. Jack Lindzon, 27, fell severely wounded after being shot by a gunman following a bank robbery tod(...)
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Goode, Jeff
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A Bank Robber in stocking mask, holding a deadman's detonator in his teeth (arrow), walks from a Kenora bank behind a policeman stowing money in a tru(...)
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Dutton, Don
5/10/1973
Twice unlucky: An alert policeman no sooner nabbed a suspect and got back $1,300 stolen from this bank at Church and Wellesley, when it was hit by a second robber
Twice unlucky: An alert policeman no sooner nabbed a suspect and got back $1,300 stolen from this bank at Church and Wellesley, when it was hit by a second robber
Spremo, Boris
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