AUSTRALIAN CRIMES

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 September 1926, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN CRIMES

YOUTH FATALLY SHOT.

DURING “GANG” QUARREL.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable-Press Assn.—Copyright.)

SYDNEY, Sept. 16. Reginald Riddle, seventeen, as the outcome of gang qtUliTels, was fatally shot in. d street fit Atiilandale: The police arrested a member of another gang; ■ constable Uses Revolver. MELBOURNE, Sept 16. • Constable Hooley, intervening in an angry discussion between three men and a woman in a street at Fitzroy, was savagely attacked. He used his revolver and shot one attacker in the breast. The latter is not expected to recover.

The constable shot the other two men in the legs. All the attackers were arrested.

BANK ROBBERY.

PERTH, Sept. 16.

Two armed men entered the Mount Lawley branch of the Westralian Bank, locked the manager and assistant in the storeroom, took £335 in notes and silver from the safe, and calmly walked into the street.

The locked-up officials 1 lanaged to release themselves, and informed the police, who later arrested the robbers and recovered the whole of the missing money. The robbers were recent arrivals from England.