An Arrest Made In Bandit Murder
YOUNG MAN CHARGED United Press Association.—By Eleetrio Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, Sept. 7. Detectives who are inquiring into the murder of Frederick William Sherry, who was shot and killed by motor bandits, have charged a young man with murder. On September 1 bandits held up a motor-car at Collingwood, shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47, stole part of a payroll for the employees of the Sherry Shoe Company, of Clifton HilJ, and escaped in another car. Sherry stopped tho car, alighted, and tried to escape, but fell in the gutter, whereupon a young masked man leapt from the pursuing car and fired two shots point-blank into Sherry’s body.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 7
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