BANDITS FOILED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19601, 5 April 1938, Page 5

BANDITS FOILED

MOTOR CAR CHASE

DEMAND FOR PAY-ROLL

MELBOURNE, March 17

After having been pursued at high speed through busy streets in Clifton Hill and Collingwood this afternoon two shoe manufacturers foiled an attempt by armed thieves to rob them of a factory pay-roll amounting to £670. The shoe manufacturers were Mr. Clarence Sherry and his brother, Mr. William Frederick Sherry, both of the Sherry Shoe Company Proprietary, Limited, Roseneath street, Clifton Hill. The brothers were returning to the factory from a bank at Northcote with their employees' pay when a fawncoloured sedan car drew alongside their car, "Stick your hands up and hand it over," said a masked man in the fawn car, 'pointing a revolver at Mr. Clarence Sherry. "Duck," Sherry shouted to his brother as he drove his car swiftly into Roseneath street. The bandits pursued the manufacturers past their factory into a side street, where their car grazed a rockery, and along several other side streets to Johnstone street. There, in the heavy traffic, the risk of accident was great, but Mr. Sherry continued at high speed towards the Collingwood police station. Both cars just missed a tram .as they swung into Hoddle street. The thieves realised that Mr. Sherry was driving to the police station when they saw the Collingwood Town Hall and drove away along Huddle street towards Richmond. . , It is believed that the car occupied by the thieves was stolen from Punt road, South Yarra, on Wednesday night. ..