SHOOTING OF PORTER

Evening Star, Issue 22202, 3 December 1935, Page 9

SHOOTING OF PORTER

JOKES SENTENCED TO DEATH Press Association — By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, December 2. At the Criminal Court to-day Frank Howard Jones, aged .20, labourer was convicted of wounding Allan Clarke with intent to murder him, Mr Justice Hals© Rogers recorded the death sentence. [Jones held up the station master, Mr Arthur Jay, at North Strathfield suburban railway station at midnight and demanded the booking office takings. Jay told the intruder he had no money and no keys, whereupon a shot was 'fired in his direction. This attracted two porters, one of whom, Mr Allan Clarke, defied the bandit, and was shot in the abdomen. A few weeks later a mysterious explosion occurred at a powder magazine in the municipal quarry at Concord, and Jones was found terribly injured. When he was being rescued the police found a loaded revolver and an unloaded one not far from him. He told the police that.he attempted to enter the shed containing explosives to sleep, when he was blown into the quarry, which is 30ft deep and full of rocks.]