N.S.W. CRIME WAVE
o A4uciln\ e wave is sweeping New bouth Wales. In the last seven weeks 16 major crimes have been reported ° .the Police. Since December 19, 1944, there have been seven deaths, and eight persons wounded by shooting The police claim to have satisfactorily cleared up 14 of the cases. The most recent case to claim their attention was the fatal shooting in a Sydney street of Mrs. Margaret Holmes, 39, better known as Vera Cox. She was well known to the police. She was about to enter the front door of a slum house in notorious Woolloomooloo at 3 a.m. when n shot rang out. She staggered into the middle of the road and collapsed. To a woman who went to her assistance she screamed: Ive been shot. The got me." * 1° hospital, before she died, she refused to name her assailant and abused Uie police. Later, Mrs. Iris Furlong was charged with having murdered her.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 5
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159N.S.W. CRIME WAVE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 5
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