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Pummelled to the Ground by a young robber who stole his watch while an accomplice looked on, Arthur Collings is helped by Police Cadet Richard Lackey.(...)
Pummelled to the Ground by a young robber who stole his watch while an accomplice looked on, Arthur Collings is helped by Police Cadet Richard Lackey.(...)

Pummelled to the Ground by a young robber who stole his watch while an accomplice looked on, Arthur Collings is helped by Police Cadet Richard Lackey.(...)

Date9/1/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pummelled to the Ground by a young robber who stole his watch while an accomplice looked on; Arthur Collings is helped by Police Cadet Richard Lackey. The assault in broad daylight at Queen and Jarvis this week was one of a growing number of attacks on people in Toronto. There have been more than 4;300 reported cases so far this year.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0120581F
Baggageman Arthur Manders, 64, shows where robbers forced him to lie on the floor yesterday while they slashed open mail bags. It was the first robber(...)
Baggageman Arthur Manders, 64, shows where robbers forced him to lie on the floor yesterday while they slashed open mail bags. It was the first robber(...)
8/4/1971
Death car: Police set up barriers around a crashed getaway car after a robber killed his accomplice and himself after a botched heist
Death car: Police set up barriers around a crashed getaway car after a robber killed his accomplice and himself after a botched heist
3/12/1992
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
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
3/12/1981
Cleaned out: Paul Kestane and his mother Nadia talk to Constable Rolf Meingast about the swarming attack by 20 to 50 bandits who smashed their booth and stole $100,000 in jewelry yesterday
Cleaned out: Paul Kestane and his mother Nadia talk to Constable Rolf Meingast about the swarming attack by 20 to 50 bandits who smashed their booth and stole $100,000 in jewelry yesterday
10/6/1991
Thrown to the ground by a robber, 24-year-old Joy Anastasakis of Don Mills held on to the purse until the strap broke
Thrown to the ground by a robber, 24-year-old Joy Anastasakis of Don Mills held on to the purse until the strap broke
2/9/1975
Chased off attackers: Guy Smart, 73, shows how he was beaten over the head with a steel ashtray by robbers who burst into his apartment
Chased off attackers: Guy Smart, 73, shows how he was beaten over the head with a steel ashtray by robbers who burst into his apartment
11/3/1982
Debt-free: That's how Corey Snow, 12, (left) and Regan Collings, 11, both of Bradford, want to see Canada when they're grown up, so they sold their toys to help reduce deficit
Debt-free: That's how Corey Snow, 12, (left) and Regan Collings, 11, both of Bradford, want to see Canada when they're grown up, so they sold their toys to help reduce deficit
11/9/1990
Blizzard G.M. - Allan Collings
Blizzard G.M. - Allan Collings
1/31/1985
Would you open the door of your apartment to a man who looked like this? The optical distrortion of the fish eye lens used in a wide angle door viewer(...)
Would you open the door of your apartment to a man who looked like this? The optical distrortion of the fish eye lens used in a wide angle door viewer(...)
2/3/1976
Stoles valuables
Stoles valuables
10/31/1979
Donna Petrevski: she watched in horror as a robber repeatedly slashed her husband with a butcher's knife in their delicatessen
Donna Petrevski: she watched in horror as a robber repeatedly slashed her husband with a butcher's knife in their delicatessen
11/30/1982
Robbery aftermath: Bags of loot which robbers failed to take with them lie strewn on floor in Simpsons' basement at Yonge and Queen Sts
Robbery aftermath: Bags of loot which robbers failed to take with them lie strewn on floor in Simpsons' basement at Yonge and Queen Sts
10/4/1982