At first, Gifford Hobday didn't even realize what was happening. It was a little after noon on what seemed to be an ordinary summer Friday in 1940. Hobday was at work as a bank teller at a CIBC in Riverdale — a handsome old building on Broadview south of Gerrard (now home to an architecture firm). He was helping a customer, checking a deposit at his desk inside the cage, so wrapped up in his task that he didn't notice when someone shoved his patron out of the way. And when he half-heard a voice mention something about a holdup, he assumed they were just making idle conversation. But then the voice repeated it. "This is a hold up."
Such an exciting story! Can't imagine this happening in Toronto: a multi-level gun fight during a bank robberry at a CIBC branch. And what an ending (you must read it all to see how it all turns out).
Such an exciting story! Can't imagine this happening in Toronto: a multi-level gun fight during a bank robberry at a CIBC branch. And what an ending (you must read it all to see how it all turns out).