COLLINGWOOD MURDER
LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR GUILTY MEN DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, December 21. (Received December 22, at 8 a.m.) The Victorian Cabinet commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences on Herbert Jenner (22) and Selwyn Wallace (23) for the murder of Frederick Sherry.
[Bandits on September 1 held up a motor car at Collingwood and shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47, attempted to steal the payroll for the employees of the Sherry Shoe Company, of Clifton Hill, and escaped in another car The bandits waited outside the bank where Sherry was drawing the employees’ money, and followed his car, at which they fired two shots. 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. Henry Thomas, who was driving Sherry’s car, went to the latter’s assistance, but was knocked down.]
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Evening Star, Issue 23147, 22 December 1938, Page 11
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