BURGLARS IN SYDNEY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12259, 9 June 1914, Page 5

BURGLARS IN SYDNEY.

NO SCRUPLES ABOUT SHOOTING. [By Electric Teleoraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 9, at 0.10 a.m. For the fourth time in twelve months burglars attempted to rob the Oxford street post office in the early morning. The watchman, hearing someone inside, fastened the door and went to obtain assistance. He had only gone, a few yards when a man, evidently watching" his movements, fired a revolver at' him. The bullet, passing through the watchman's cheek, struck a. second man standing on the footpath, knocking out three teeth. The watchman fired three shots at his,assailant, who succeeded in escaping. Meanwhile, the safe-breaker, who was locked inside, alarmed, by the firing, broke a fanlight, reached a -back building, de■sPctndsd by the fire escape, and gotaway. Explosives were found in the keyhole of the safe, but nothing is missing-