A WILD ORGY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10831, 1 April 1932, Page 3

A WILD ORGY.

('ALLOTS ATTACK OX GUESTS AT PARTY'. Sydney, March 21. Five drink-crazed Camperdown gangsters, armed with bottles, shortly before midnight burst their way into the home of Mr and Mrs Charlij Dunn. “Maybank,” Nelson Street, Annandale, just as their golden wedding anniversary party was drawing to a close. The place was left a shambles and seven persons were wounded during an amazing scene. Mr Dunn is an old-time boxer. Seventy-five relatives and friends of the Dunn family were invited to the anniversary, which was held in the old people’s low-pitchcd, weatherboard cottage near the Rozelle end of Nelson-street.

The party commenced at sunset, and when all but 20 of the guests had left for their home five young men, said by the police to be units of one of Caraperdown’s most ruffianly gangs, walked in the main doorway, through the cottage, and out into the yard. None had been invited to the party, and none was a friend of the family. Demanded Drinks.

Taking advantage of the kindly treatment meted out to them by the unsuspecting- hosts, the gangsters asked for more drink. They were refused, and some of the male guests asked them to leave.

It was then that the intruders became abusive. Furniture and ornaments were smashed and there was a callous disregard for human life and limb. When the men directed their savagery against Mr Dunn however, the guests took more determined action. Dunn’s son, in rushing to the rescue of his feeble father, was met by one of the larrikins with the jagged end of the vase. The barbarian jabbed the centre of Dunn’s face with the glass, and son Dunn was covered with blood.

Leonard Mole, of Dowling Street, Moore Park, was also injured on the head and body. Mrs Dunn, who pluckily went to the air of her helpless husband, was the next target for the gang’s violence.

The five men set upon her, tore a new frock from her body and finished up by kicking her as she lay unconscious in the yard.

Several guests were brutally attacked before the police arrived. Three of the gang disappeared after chasing two girls.

The police arrested two others who were locked up at Petersham station. Half an hour later one of them complained of feeling ill. He was taken to Prince Alfred Hospital by New-town-Marickville Ambulance men, and admitted, suffering from concussion and cerebral injuries.