MELBOURNE MURDER
Young Labourer Charged With Crime. THE SECOND ARREST. (Recctved 1 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Herbert Jenner. aped 23. a labourer, who was escorted by detectives from Sydney to Melbourne, was charged with the murder of F. W. Sherry. On Tuesday the Melbourne coroner committed Selwyn Wallace, iiged 22, a traveller, for trial on the charge of having murdered Sherry. The coroner found that Sherry w<i« shot by a man, whose name vya» unknown to him, and who had been aided by Waliace. On September 1 bandits held up a motor car Coliingwood, and shot dead Frederick William Sherry, aged 47, in an attempt to steal the * payroll ot the Sherry Shoe Company, of Clifton Hill. Sherry had stuffed JtooO of the notes into the pockets of Henry Thomas, who was driving the car, and who escaped, the bandit® getting only £130.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 250, 22 October 1938, Page 9
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