BANDITS AND BOTTLE
OWNER'S WHISKY DRUNK
POLICE EFFECT ARRESTS
Australian Press Association—United Serrlce.
(Beceived Oth August, 9 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day. Two masked robbers, who secreted themselves in Michael Briggs's butcher shop at, Redfern last night, bound and gagged Briggs and covered him with'a revolver. They then commenced to hunt for cash, and discovered a bottle of whisky. They had impudently consumed a large portion when a woman neighbour, hearing the men's threats to Briggs, telephoned the polioe,' who dashed to the scene in a. car and arrested tko bandits, but not before a shot was fired by one at the womnu who gave the alarm.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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106BANDITS AND BOTTLE Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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