LAWLESS MELBOURNE
WEEK-EXD VI(ILEXCE (U.P.A. bv Elec. Tel. Copyright.) MELBOURNE, April 4. The two victims who were battered into insensibility during the weekend wave or violent crimes, died m hospital without regaining consciousness. A me .-sage on Monday stated that seven violent crimes occurred during the week-end. In each case armed men held up and. assaulted either sbopewners or persons in the street. Two of- the victims were battered into iinsensibility . Three men at South Melbourne escaped from a cafe where they punched a middle-aged woman and lore her clothes in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the till. Another man was garrotted and robbed of £285 hi- notes.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12521, 5 April 1935, Page 5
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