MURDER REMAND

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1938, Page 7

MURDER REMAND

PAYROLL HOLD-UP SEQUEL, MELBOURNE, September 10. Selwyu Wallace, 22, traveller, of Lonsdale Street, was remanded in the city Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Frederick William Sherry. Senior Detective W. J. Sloan said, tlmt Wallace had made a statement. Sherry was shot at Clifton Hill last Thursday by a masked bandit, who robbed him of a payroll bag containing £SO/6/8. Wallace is tall and dark, well-groom-ed and well-dressed. He was a striking figure as he stood in the dock with several plainclothes detectives nearby. He was dressed in a belted, khakicoloured polo coat and silk scarf over >. navy blue suit. He wore a blue and white stripeu collar and a broad striped blue and white tie, and carried a green hat. Senior Detective ij'loan said that yesterday with Detective-Inspector Carey and other detectives, he arrested Wallace. Wallace was then charged. It was alleged, said Senior-Detective Sloan, that at 2 p.m. on September-Ist, while William Sherry and a man named Thomas were escorting a large sum of money from the bank at Norteote in a motor-car, they turned into Hoddle Street. Their car was forced into the gutter by another car containing two men. One of tile men, proceeded SeniorDetective Sloan, covered Sherry with a revolver and demanded him to hand the money over. Sherry grappled with the man, added the detective. Out on the roadway, Sherry further grappled with him, proceeded Sloan. Sherry broke away, and then a shot was fired. A further two shots were fired. The second of these killed Sherry. Sloan added that the two men took a bag of money from Sherry’s car and, after loaning into their own car, drove quickly oft' towards Collingwood.