Bank-robbery defeated,
On Feb 28th,57, nineteen years old keeper of a gasolinstation, STEFAN MELZER-GREWE, entered the savingsbank of the little town of BALVE / Westphalia. He threatened the purser with a pistol and tried to take money out off the money-chest. Meanwhile a a client of the bank, merchant FRANZ GERCKEH,22, attacked the gangster and succeeded to catch him thought he was blessed by a shot of the robber's pistol. Soon some employees of the bane jumped over the barrier, overwhelmed the gangster and called for the police.
These scenes were repeated for the German television, now. Without the gangster himself, who was replaced by a double, all persons are the same.
Photo measures 8 x 6 inches.
Photo is dated 03-03-1957.
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