CASE AT SYDNEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 257, 27 September 1935, Page 9

CASE AT SYDNEY.

SERIES OF CHARGES. SYDNEY, Sept. 26. His head swathed in bandages, Frank Howard John Carpenter Jones, aged 20, labourer, appeared before a Magistrate at the suburb of Bunvood to answer eight charges, which included charges of shooting at and wounding Allen Clarke and shooting at Jay at North Stratlifield with intent to commit murder. Accused was also charged that, being armed with a revolver, he robbed George Gray at Strathlleld and attempted to rob Dernethius Mylonas at Burwood. Other charges related to breaking, entering, and tueit. A police sergeant said that, hearing a call for help, he went down to the Concord municipal quarry and found the defendant about 90 yards from a burning shed. Defendant was very badly injured. A detective-sergeant tendered statements allegedly made by defendant in which it was described how Jones held up the stationmaster at North Strathfield. He is alleged to have stated that he had no intention ot shooting Jay as the revolver accidentally went off while the shot which struck Clarke hni been intended to go into the flooi. The alleged statements also described hold-ups. The police tendered no evidence, and Jones made no statement leading to bis accident at the quarry when two revolvers and a complete burglar’s equipment were to and near the scene of his rescue. Jones was committed for trial at the Criminal Court on November 18.

A Sydney cable on Jline 24 stated that, presenting two revolvers, and affecting a headpiece similar to that worn by the liu Klux Klan, a bandit held up two occupants of shops in the western suburbs. On June 30 it was reported that a masked man had held up the stationmaster, Mr Arthur Jay at the North Stra-thfield suburban railway station at midnight and demanded the booking office takings. Mr Jay told the intruder lie had no money and no keys, whereupon a shot was fired in his direction. Tins attracted two porters, one of whom, Mr Allen Clarke, in defying the bandit, was shot in the abdomen. The bandit escaped. A cable on July 28 stated that detectives were investigating a mysterious explosion at a powder magazine on the bank of the municipal quarry at the suburb of Concord, and the presence of a man, terribly injured. in the quarry. When the man was being rescued the police found a loaded revolver, also an unloaded revolver, not far from the victim whose face and body were severely battered and burned. ______