MASKED BURGLARS.
TWO NIGHT ENCOUNTERS IN
SYDNEY
UNPROTECTED WOMEN AFFECTED.
By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright United Press Association.
Sydney, March 15. Residents in two suburbs encountered masked burglars last night. Mrs Fleming, at Randwick, arose during the night and sa.w a hand protruding from under the bed. She screamed, and the masked man emerged. The lady grabbed his mask, and the man lied. The police have been supplied with a full description of the .burglar.
Earlier in the night Miss Hamilton was alone in a house at Bellevue Hill, when two masked burglars forced the front door. Miss Hamilton rushed to the telephone and called up her mistress, who is a city hotelkeeper. The burglars seized and locked Miss Hamilton in her room, after roughly handling her. They then ransacked the house and escaped.
LOOT NOT LARGE. (Received 16, 9.40 a.m.)' Sydney, March 16. The burglars dn both cases secured little loot.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 69, 16 March 1912, Page 5
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