MELBOURNE UNDERWORLD

Evening Star, Issue 18919, 18 April 1925, Page 4

MELBOURNE UNDERWORLD

BOMB EPISODE EXPLAINED PRISONER'S ALLEGATIONS Press Association—By Telegraph— CopyrightAustralian and N.Z. Press Association. .MELBOURNE, April 18. (Received April 18, at 10 a.m.) A quarrel between rival gangs of criminals regarding tho method adopted for disposing of silk valued at nearly £BOO which was stolen from a city warehouse, and tho jealousy of ono woman regarding another woman, aro alleged by' tho detectives to have been the motives which led a man to placo a bomb on tho verandah of Miss Dora Schatzberg’s house at Malvern. William James Charles Lock*, who is at present in Coburg Gaol awaiting trial on a charge of warehouse breaking, admitted to the detectives that he had leased Mbs Schatzberg’s house, and took possession of it under tho name of Waldron with a woman who gave her name as Mrs Waldron. Locko admitted that some time ago ho was friendly with a woman who recently served a sentence of six months in gaol. When released she became jealous of tho other woman, and arranged a demonstration against her rival, whom sho believed to ho still living in Mbs Schatzberg’s house. Tho detectives say that the bombthrowing was committed by a well-known member of a criminal gang who absconded from bail, and is now hiding from arrest. [A Melbourne cablo on tho 9th inst. states that at East Malvern a bomb exploded on tho front verandah of a house owned and occupied by Miss Dora Schatzberg. So far the whole affair b shrouded in mystery. The efforts of the police at present are directed towards tracing a man and his wife named Waldron, who hurriedly vacated the house on Monday without giving any explanation, though their lease had three weeks to run. The police incline to tho theory that the bomb j was left by sumo person with the inten|iion of doing harm to the, Waldrons, whom they believed to bo still in occupation. Miss Schatzberg ami a neighbor's child wero tha only occupants of' the house at tho time of the explosion. Beyond a fright and shock both wero uninjured.]