BANDIT DESPERADOS
CAUGHT IN THE ACT
BUTCHER BOUND AND GAGGED
WOMAN GIVES THE ALARM
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.59 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day
Two masked robbers who secreted themselves in Michael Briggs’ butch"s .shop .at Redfern last night bound and gagged Briggs, covered him with a revolver and commenced to hunt for cash.
They discovered a bottle of whisky, and had impudently consumed a large portion when a woman neighbour, hearing the men’s threats to Piiggs, telephoned the police, ivho dashed to the scene in a ear and arrested the bandits, but not before a shot was fired by one of them at the woman who gave the alarm.
INTENT TO KILL
ACCUSED MEN REMANDED
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 3 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. William Wilton and William Nelson were remanded on charges of robbery under aims in connection with the Rcdfern robbery last nigint. . Nelson was also charged with having fired a. revolver with intent to kill the woman informer.
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Northern Advocate, 6 August 1929, Page 5
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