FIVE YEARS' GAOL.
ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, September 6. William Wilton, aged 29, and William Nelson, aged 30, who were convicted of robbery, under arms at Brigg's butcher's shop at Redfern, were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment. —Australian Press Association. Two masked robbers, who had secreted themselves in a butcher's shop at Redfern owned by Michael Briggs, bound and gagged Briggs, covered him with revolvers, and commenced to hunt for cash. The intruders discovered a .bottle of whisky and impudently consumed a large portion of the contents. A woman neighbour heard the men threatening Briggs, and she telephoned to the police, who dashed to the scene in a motor-car. They arrested the bandits, but not before a shot had been fired by one of them at the woman who had given the alarm.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 275, 7 September 1929, Page 5
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