MELBOURNE OUTRAGE
ARMED BANDITS SHOOT CONSTABLE IN CITY. SEIZE; £9lO IN BAG AND ESCAPE. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Onnrright.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 21. While acting as an armed escort to three employes •of a city firm carrying a hag containing £940 to a bank, 4 Plain-clothes Constable Charles Derham’, 29, was shot through the head when three armed bandits held them up in Flinders Lane. ' ' The robbers then grabbed the money and decamped in a car. . The streets were crowded at the time with late shoppers. The constable’s conditions is critical. ' '
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11495, 24 November 1931, Page 5
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