DRAMATIC ARREST
CHASE IN SYDNEY. Fugitive Fights Running Battle With Police. PICTURESQUE GUN PLAY. SYDNEY, August 10. | A dramatic capture was effected' to-day by a Sydney police patrol. Early in May Edward Joseph Coffey disappeared. He was supposed to have been drowned while bathing at! Bondi. At that time he was on bail awaiting trial on charges of stealing motor cars. The drowning story was doubted by the police, but they could not trace the man until to-day. The members of the patrol party, in a motor car, were scouring the Mascot district, near the city, where it was believed Coffey was hiding. They suddenly caught sight of him and simultaneously he recognised the police and I ran away. I A long chase followed. Coffey refused to stop when he was called upon to do so. A shot was fired over his head. Coffey drew a revolver and returned the fire. For a few minutes a running fight was maintained, a number of shots being exchanged. At length Coffey was stopped by a bullet in the back, and was quickly overpowered. All the eight chambers of his revolver had been discharged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 189, 11 August 1928, Page 9
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