SHOT DOWN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 September 1928, Page 2

SHOT DOWN

IN BUSY SYDNEY STREET. - YOUTH dying—police puzzled. , Shot down by a gunman in sight of the busily-mbving throngs in Rawson Place, Leslie Grano, aged 21, was ad- * mitted to Sydney Hospital in a critical condition, suffering from a wound in the left lung (says a Sydnoypaper). There is no motive behind the shoot--, ing, the police have been told, unless it was just the gunman's way of showing off his bravadp. v Grano, with several companions, was walking along Kawson Place towards. George Street, when'a man came the middle of the road and barred their way. "You get out-of this place, and be' quick. ’ ’ he said. - Grano and his mates thought it a joke. They laughed at him. The'" man who accosted them then drew a revolver, and without further word-* pulled the trigger. Grano dropped like a log, with a bullet wound in the left shoulder, from* which blood began, to 00/e. Constable Hears Shooting. Constable Gimbert ,\vho was on duty* in George Street, heard the shooting. When he. reached the scene the ,, man had disappeared.. The constable assisted the General Ambulance to take the patient to Sydney Hospital. * William Luff, of Harris Street, Ultimo; Sydney H. Bendall, of Ainsworth * Street, Loichardt;. and Jack Holliday,'of Irving Street, City, were with.Grano when h 6 -was shot'. Grano, they said, did not know the’* gunman. "He was a stranger to all-of us, and there was no earthly reason why ho should have picked on as.’’ Bendall said that he was in front . of the gunman when he whipped the revolver from an overcoat pocket. "L ducked,' ■’ he said, "and the bullet hit Grano." After the shooting, it is said,, the , gunman cooly pocketed the revolver," and strolled along with a companion to a near by corner, where he stayed for a minute or two, before he crossed;, George Street and disappeared down a side lane. Bendall followed the gunman fore,, several hundred yards in the hope of seeing a policeman. • ■ . • There was a wild scatter in. Rawson,Street when the shot was lirod. Several men, believed to have been companions of the gunman, poinod in the general* : breakaway. . ■ ■ >