CAR HELD UP BY BANDITS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22496, 2 September 1938, Page 11

CAR HELD UP BY BANDITS

PAY-ROLL STOLEN FROM, OCCUPANT

VICTIM MURDERED BEFORE ROBBERY

(towed PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received September 2, 12.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September 1. Bandits this afternoon held up a motor-car at Collingwood and shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47. They then stole the pay-roll tor the employees of the Sherry Shoe Company, of Clifton Hill, and escaped in another car. The police are of the opinion that the bandits waited outside the bank where Sherry was drawing his employees’ money, and followed his car, at which they fired two shots. Sherry stopped the car and alighted and tried to escape, but fell to the gutter, whereupon a young masked man leapt from the pursuing car and fired two shots point blank into Sherry’s body. Henry Thomas, who was driving Sherry’s car, went to the latter’s assistance, but was knocked down, after which the money was stolen.