SYDNEY CRIMINALS
BAG-SNATCHERS AND BLACK
MAILERS
BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—oOP7E:GHT
(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, Feb. 11
Recently Constable Wplgast was shot dead while attempting to arrest a man in Centennial Park suspected of bagsnatching, and now a man named Speechley has been arrested and committed for trial on a. charge of murdering Constable Wolgast.
Evidence by actual participators in the depredations disclosed that for years the park has been haunted by a big gang known as "The Centennial Park Hundred," who dogged people and indulged in hag-snatching amd blackmailing. Some operated in the daytime, but mostlyv at. -night, when lover couples were the chief - victims. The sections of /.he gang were known as "daysiders" >nd "night-workers,'?
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 7
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115SYDNEY CRIMINALS Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 12 February 1921, Page 7
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