MELBOURNE MURDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 9

MELBOURNE MURDER

SECOND MAN CHARGED

(Received October 22, 11.40 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, This Day,

Herbert Jenner, aged 23, a labourer, who was escorted by detectives from Sydney to Melbourne, was charged with the murder of Frederick William Sherry, who was shot during an attempt to steal a payroll at Collingwood on September 1.

Bandits held up a motor-car at Collingwood, shot and killed Sherry, aged 47, stole part of a payroll for the employees of the Sherry Shoe Co., of Clilton 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. Harry Thomas, who was driving Sherry's car, went to the latter's assistance, but was knocked down. Thomas escaped with £550 in his pockets, and the thieves obtained about £130, which was in a bag. Sherry had stuffed notes into Thomas's pockets during the chase. A Melbourne message on October 18 stated that Selwyn Wallace, aged 22, a traveller, had been committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Sherry. The Coroner found that Sherry wag shot by a man whose >■ name was unknown to him and who had been aided by Wallace.

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