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Hoping to go home today, 48-year-old Robert Chambers, the Brink's guard hit on the head by a hammer during $50,000 robbery at Eglinton Square Monday, (...)
Hoping to go home today, 48-year-old Robert Chambers, the Brink's guard hit on the head by a hammer during $50,000 robbery at Eglinton Square Monday, (...)

Hoping to go home today, 48-year-old Robert Chambers, the Brink's guard hit on the head by a hammer during $50,000 robbery at Eglinton Square Monday, (...)

Date3/28/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hoping to go home today; 48-year-old Robert Chambers; the Brink's guard hit on the head by a hammer during $50;000 robbery at Eglinton Square Monday; sits us in hospital bed as he and his wife; Evelyn; chat. It was lucky he wasn't hit on the back.... or the temple; he'd be dead; she said.
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    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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    Photographs
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0121875F
      Wife of wounded Brink's messenger Evelyn Chambers, leaves Toronto East General Hospital with youngest son, Trevor (right), 13, after visiting husband,(...)
      Wife of wounded Brink's messenger Evelyn Chambers, leaves Toronto East General Hospital with youngest son, Trevor (right), 13, after visiting husband,(...)
      McConnell, Colin
      3/27/1978
      Daylight robbery: A youth escaped with $32,000 in a daring holdup at a Scarborough liquor store yesterday after slugging a Brink's armored car guard and making-off with his satchel
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      2/19/1983
      Peel police tightly cordoned the area around a trust company at Square One plaza after more than $100,000 was taken from a Brink's guard making a cash(...)
      Peel police tightly cordoned the area around a trust company at Square One plaza after more than $100,000 was taken from a Brink's guard making a cash(...)
      Calleja, Frank
      8/18/1986
      Getaway car: Metro police examine the getaway car left at Lawrence Square Plaza by two gunmen who robbed a Brink's guard yesterday
      Getaway car: Metro police examine the getaway car left at Lawrence Square Plaza by two gunmen who robbed a Brink's guard yesterday
      Mahler, John
      3/26/1991
      Bystanders mill about entrance moments after a store employee was killed and a Brink's messenger wounded and robbed of $50,000 yesterday in a Scarboro(...)
      Bystanders mill about entrance moments after a store employee was killed and a Brink's messenger wounded and robbed of $50,000 yesterday in a Scarboro(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      3/27/1978
      Brink's Robbery
      Brink's Robbery
      Dunlop, Al
      3/26/1991
      Daring holdup: An unidentified Brink's employee speaks with a detective after Yorkdale's second Brink's holdup in less than two years
      Daring holdup: An unidentified Brink's employee speaks with a detective after Yorkdale's second Brink's holdup in less than two years
      Dunlop, Al
      3/26/1991
      David Rose: Brink's guard said there was no sign of truck when he went outside
      David Rose: Brink's guard said there was no sign of truck when he went outside
      Stawicki, Andrew
      6/21/1986
      Daylight heist: Workers at the Ontario Food Terminal in Etobicoke stare at a Brink's truck whose guard was robbed by two yesterday
      Daylight heist: Workers at the Ontario Food Terminal in Etobicoke stare at a Brink's truck whose guard was robbed by two yesterday
      Faught, Ken
      1/22/1991
      At scene: Brink's guard Joe Cete, left, was freed from cuffs by depot's operations manager Tom Chowns
      At scene: Brink's guard Joe Cete, left, was freed from cuffs by depot's operations manager Tom Chowns
      Faught, Ken
      1/22/1991
      Honoring a colleague: Brinks guards salute as a casket containing the body of their slain colleague, Malcolm (Rick) Bridgman, 31, is carried into Whitby's Free Methodist Church yesterday
      Honoring a colleague: Brinks guards salute as a casket containing the body of their slain colleague, Malcolm (Rick) Bridgman, 31, is carried into Whitby's Free Methodist Church yesterday
      Power, Peter
      12/18/1991
      At scene: Brink's guard Joe Cete, left, was freed from cuffs by depot's operations manager Tom Chowns
      At scene: Brink's guard Joe Cete, left, was freed from cuffs by depot's operations manager Tom Chowns
      Power, Peter
      1/22/1991