THREE MEN SHOT.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 118, 18 May 1920, Page 5

THREE MEN SHOT.

LAWLESSNESS IN MELBOURNE. SEQUENCE OF CASES. MELBOURNE, May 0. While drinking a cup of coffee it a pie stall in the southern part of Sydney 'Road, Brunswick, late last nigiit, Sydney I Spiller, a young man employed by the ! Brunswick Council on a stone-crushing ! machine, heard a shot and felt a. stinging j pain in his log. He found a slight flesh wound had been inflicted, which was treated at the Melbourne Hospital. BCLLET WOUXD OVKII TIIK HKART. With a bullet wound bWow tin- heart, George Oxlpy, of (.'obden Street, South Melbourne, was admitted to the Hoiniropatltic Hospitu.l late last night. His condition wa.s serious, though it is not considered critical. A young woman named Kennedy last night went to see snme friends at a house in Cobdpn Street. Several young men were there, and when the party was just about to leave the woman's husband, Kennedy, a labourer, 27- years of age, arrivpd at the house and spoke to a man. He was ordered out of the j house and took his wife with him. I In the street Oxley and Kennedy commcncwl to scuffle, and si shot was tired, the bullet striking Ocley. He was taken by his mates to the hospital in a motorcar. MEAT AXF. V. REVOLVER. Entering the Yarraville Police Station yesterday evening in a state of excitement, a Chinese market gardener, Ah Pah. living in Somerville Road, Yarraville, gasped that there was a robber in his nut. Two constables to the hut with Ah Pah, but found no intruder there. A bullet wound in the shoulder of tlie Chinese proved that liis complaint was not groundless. He had been lighting a fire in his hut, he said, when a man wearing a mask looked in at the doorway, saying, "Hullo •Jimmy, what you got?" The Chinese jumped up from his crouching posture before the fire, and as he did so he saw a flash and heard a report, and felt a stinging pain in his shoulder. The wound was not serious, however, and seizing a meat axe, Ah Pah made for the man, who stood by the door with a. revolver in his hand. The intruder fled. _—_____