WAVE OF CRIME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 218, 15 September 1930, Page 7

WAVE OF CRIME.

AUSTRALIAN BANDITS. Robbery, Sandbagging and Gun Play. ONE MAN MURDERED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12 nqpn.) SYDNEY, this day. Armed and masked robbers were busy again during the week-end. Two taxi drivers were held up and robbed. One was gagged and the other sandbagged before being relieved of their takings. A Chinese, who refused to give two men money, was felled with the butt/of a revolver. The police chased the wanted man along a city street, and when cornered, he drew a revolver. After a sharp struggle he was disarmed and arrested. A socond case of this kind occurred at Botany when a man, wanted on numerous robbery charges, menaced the police with a gun. He and two associates were arrested. A shooting affray occurred at the Enfield tram depot when a conductor, after firing two shots at the depotmaster, turned his revolver on himself. He died later ill hospital. There were numerous cases of house robberies. Jewellery worth £2000 was stolen from a, Paddingtou'.home. Eric Chalmers and George Maloney were stabbed in the yard of a hotel at Perth, the former dying of his injuries. Maurice Alexander was arrested on a charge of unlawful killing. WINE BAR DRAMA. . Sydney Shooting Fray May Cause Gang Warfare. WRITING ON THE DOOR. (Received 12 noon.) SYDNEY, this day.,. A young man, Lancelot Saidler, was shot dead in a wine bar in Elizabeth Street Saturday afternoon. It is alleged that he demanded money from the proprietor, who refused to give him any, and that Saidler then threatened him with a razor. In the resultant confusion the fatal shot was fired. Saidler was vaulting over the bar counter when the.proprietor, E. A. Good, fired a revolver,-as he told the detectives, in self-defence. Good has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. The police fear that the shooting of Saidler will start a new gang warfare. Scrawled on the door of the wine saloon in which Saidler was shot were the words: "I am going to get you and I will kill too."