MASKED MEN ROB BAKERY
PRISON SENTENCES IMPOSED (Received September 5, 6.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, September 4. John Sterling, aged 27, Thomas Keating, aged 22, and John Gaul, aged 19, were each sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for robbery under arms at a Balmain bakery. Three masked and armed, young men entered a bakery at Balmain dn August 21 and felled the manager, Eric Morgan. They obtained the keys of the safe and were proceeding to obtain the money when Morgan, who had feigned unconsciousness, hurried, unnoticed, to the police, four of whom rushed back to the bakery just in time to see the robbers compelling another employee to drive them away in a motor-lorry. The police called on the men to surrender and remove their masks; all were arrested. The sum of £2OO in notes was recovered.
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Southland Times, Issue 23297, 6 September 1937, Page 5
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136MASKED MEN ROB BAKERY Southland Times, Issue 23297, 6 September 1937, Page 5
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