the hotel's branch of the Bank of Butterfield was robbed, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

And some of the more than $24,000 stolen from the bank on October 14, 1994 was later found in the possession of Anthony Conroy Francis, who is charged with possessing a handgun and robbing the bank, the jury was told.

P.c. Hadley Ingham and Janet Williams testified during the third day of Francis' trial. The 27-year-old, of Stadium Heights, Devonshire, is accused of providing the gun for the robbery and riding the getaway bike.

It is alleged that he worked with Che Pennyman during the robbery. Pennyman is currently serving a 12-year sentence after pleading guilty to the robbery earlier this year.

P.c. Ingham said he had taken his mother to the bank and was waiting outside in his car when he heard a loud bang.

He said he saw a man wearing a black crash helmet and carrying what appeared to be a gun in his right hand and a bag in his left hand come running out of the bank.

P.c. Ingham said he followed the man in his car as he ran through a cycle park and down a hotel road to a man on a cycle which he jumped on the back of.

P.c. Ingham said the two men turned left onto South Road and headed east at speed. He said he was about 30 metres behind the cycle and took down its licence plate number before it turned onto Horseshoe Road.

He said he followed the two men along the road at about 50 kph before they turned onto Easedale Lane where he lost sight of them.

He said he turned around and went back to the hotel and called 911 to report what he had seen.

During cross examination by Mr. Archie Warner, representing Francis, P.c.

Ingham admitted he could not identify either of the two men.

Williams told the court she was working at the bank and looked up to see a man standing in the bank with a gun in his raised right hand.

"Seconds later a bag was pushed to me under my window and he asked me to fill it up,'' she said.

Williams said she gave the man her "working cash'' but the man wanted more so she gave him the bundles of money she had in the bottom of her cash drawer.

She said that amongst the money she gave Pennyman was her "bait money''. This was a bundle of Bermudian $5 bills whose serial numbers were recorded by the bank.

Bank of Butterfield senior manager Stephen Todd said he determined a discrepancy in Williams' cash drawer which represented a total loss of $24,479.91 when he checked it after the incident.

Sgt. Steven Shaw testified that he found Bermudian $5 bills amongst other bank notes when he searched Robert Wilson's and Francis' apartment the day after the incident happened.

The numbers on the Bermudian $5 bills matched the serial numbers recorded at the bank.