OVER 300 ARRESTS
CRIMES IN SYDNEY BASHINGS AND HOLD-UPS SAFEBLOWERS’ ESCAPE (10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 23. Over 300 people were taken into custody on Saturday night by special police patrols for drunkenness, brawling and offensive behaviour. A mobile patrol arrested 10 men who stopped a truck by forming a cordon and assaulted the driver. Thugs bashed a young man who was walking in Pitt street in broad daylight with his fiancee. A large crowd gathered in this and another incident at Granville, where a GO-year-old man was struck down but nobody intervened. One victim suffered a fractured skull and the other concussion and a broken nose.
Disturbed in the act of blowing a safe at Surry Hills Post Office on Saturday night, two cracksman fired six shots in response to one from a police constable. All seven shots missed and the safebreakers, leaping a 7ft. wall, ran through a private home and escaped in a car. Wireless patrol cars soon took up the chase. The shooting began when the constable caught the escaiping men in a spotlight at 20 yards.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22133, 23 September 1946, Page 5
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180OVER 300 ARRESTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22133, 23 September 1946, Page 5
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