ROBBERY UNDER ARMS.
SENTENCE ON TWO MEN.
FIVE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT.
(Received September G. 9.15 p.m.) SYDNEY. Sept. G. William Wilton, aged 29, and William Nelson, aged 33, who were convicted of robbery under arms at Michael Liiggs butcher's shop at Redfern on August 5, were to day each sentenced to imprisonment for five years.
Two masked robbers, who bail secreted themselves in tho shop at Kctlfern owned j,y Michael Briggs, on August 5 bound and gagged Briggs, covered him with revolvers, and commenced to hunt for cash. The intruders discovered a bottle of whisky and impudently consumed a large portion of the contents. A woman neighbour heard the men threatening Briggs, and she telephoned to the police, who flashed to the scene in a motor-Ccii. They arrested the bandits, l.ut not before a shot had been fired by one of them at the woman who had given the alarm.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20354, 7 September 1929, Page 11
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