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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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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0121875F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
Wife of wounded Brink's messenger Evelyn Chambers, leaves Toronto East General Hospital with youngest son, Trevor (right), 13, after visiting husband,(...)
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