SENTENCES OF DEATH.
INTENTION TO MURDER. CONVICTIONS IN SYDNEY. (Received September 30, 12.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 29. In the Criminal Court, Robert Chrvstal, aged 23, and Kenneth Farlow, aged 27, were convicted lato this evening of wounding with intent to murder Constable Ulrick at Vaucluse, on July 28, and were sentenced to death. The prisoners' defence was an alibi. Two housebreakers were arrested on July 28 at Vaucluse by Constable Ulrick, who commanded them to ride in his sidecar to the lock-up. The constable had just started the machine when one of the men seized a revolver fropi the officer's holster and shot him in tf*e breast, the bullet emerging through hia back. The side-car collided with t3ie kerb. The robbers then escaped and helri up a passing motorist, and compelled him to drive them to Surrv Hills, where they stopped the car and disappeared. The constable was seriously injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20991, 30 September 1931, Page 9
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