FRENCHMAN ARRESTED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 7

FRENCHMAN ARRESTED

PERTH POST OFFICE ROBBERY.

(UNITID PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) UUIHUUAN-NEW ZSAUND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) PERTH, 24th January. A Frenchman, named Paul Lempriere, lias been arrested in connection with the robbery, and charged with stealing £42 from the West Perth Post price. The police state that Lempriere is identical with Claude Devere, who, in November . last, escaped with another prisoner from Bendigo Gaol. Prior to escaping, Devere madevan unsuccessful attempt, for which he was sentenced to an additional eighteen months

A sensational robbery , occurred in Perth on 17*h January. A well-dressed man entered the West Perth Post Office and, covering the manager with a revolver, emptied the cash drawer, secarine about £20. 6

Police-Sergeant Hunter, seeing a man running, pursued the robber, who turned and fired at the police officer, but missed. He then ran to a motor-car and compelled the driver, at the revolver's point, to start. A police motortcyde followed, and on reaching the parkthe robber left the car and dived into the bush, the police following. The fugitive fired five running shots at them, thereby securing a lead. Emerging from the park he held up another motor-car, and compelled him to drive rapidl.v away, and so escaped.