AUDACIOUS THIEVES.
OLD MAN ATTACKED.
CRIME IN SYDNEY SUBURB. (Received August 19, 0.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Auk. 19. A brutal assault was committed today upon Mr. James Stewart, aged 79, a rent collector, at bis home in Paddington. Mr. Stewart had just returned after collecting some rents when two young men who wore masks broke ' into the house. They knocked him down, kicked him. and rifled his pockets.
The assailants stole £5, but missed a large sum of money which was kept in another part of the house.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20338, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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87AUDACIOUS THIEVES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20338, 20 August 1929, Page 9
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