MURDER IN MELBOURNE
YOUNG MAN CHARGED IU.P.A.—B.v Electric Telegraph—Copy rightl MELBOURNE, 7th September. Detectives who are inquiring into the murder of Frederick William Sherry. *vho was shot and killed by motor bandits. have charged a young man with murder; On Ist September 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 Co., of Clifton Hill, and escaped in another car. Sherry stopped the 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. Harry Thomas, who was driving Sherry's car, went to the latter’s assistance, but was knocked down. Thomas escaped with £550 in his pockets, and the thieves obtained about £l3O, v'hich was in a bag. Sherry had stuffed notes into Thomas's pockets during the chase.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 8 September 1938, Page 14
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