AN ARREST MADE
BANDIT MURDER
YOUNG MAN CHARGED
(Received September 7, 11.50 am.). MELBOURNE, This Day. Detectives who are inquiring into the murder of Frederick William Sherry, who was shot and: killed by motor battdits, have charged a young man with murder. ' ,
On September 1 bandits he.ld up a motor-car at Collingwood, shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47, stole, part of a payroll for the employ eesi of the 'Sherry Shoe Co., of Clifton Hill, and escaped in another car. Sherry stopped the car, alighted, and tried to escape, but fell in the gutter, whereupon a young masked man leapt from the pursuing car and fired two shots point-blank into Sherry's body, parry Thomas, who was driving Sherry's car, went to the latter's assistance, but was knocked down. Thomas escaped with £550 an his pockets, and the thieves obtained about £130, which was in a bag. Sherry had stuffed notes into Thomas's pockets during the chase.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 11
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158AN ARREST MADE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 11
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