SYDNEY BURGLARIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 17 May 1912, Page 5

SYDNEY BURGLARIES

SENTENCE OF TWELVE YEARS'

IMPRISONMENT

n CABLE—FBESS ASaOCIATIOJT—COPrBIGHT SYDNEY, May 16. A youth named Talbot has been sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment in connection with the burglary episode at McCormack's, North Sydney.

A cable message received on April 5 sa/s that an exciting encounter oc *.urred at North Sydney. Andrew McCormack, when locking in his house, was a nfronted by a masked man, who presented a revolver at his head. McCormack knocked the revolver aside and closed with the man. They straggled and wrestled for the length of the garden. His cries brought his brother to his assistance, and together they dis abled the intruder and conveyed him to the police "station. The police also arrested an armed man in the city earl/ in the morning. Upon searching him they found a portion of the proceeds^ of one of the recent numerous burglaries. The man fought savagely before being overpowered.