MOTOR BANDITS
CRIME NEAR MELBOURNE ROBBERY AND MURDER PAY CLERK SHOT DEAD (United Press Association) . (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, Sept. 1. (Received Sept. 1, at 11.55 p.m.) Bandits this afternoon held up,a motor car at Collingwood and shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47. stole the payroll for the employees of the . Sherry Shoe Company, of Clifton Hill, and escaped in another car. The police are of the opinion that the bandits waited outside the bank where Sherry was drawing the employees’ money, and followed his car, at which they fired two shots. 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. Henry Thomas, who was driving Sherry‘’s car, went to the latter’s assistance but was knocked down, after which IJie money was stolen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23594, 2 September 1938, Page 9
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