HIGHWAYMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 21 June 1913, Page 5

HIGHWAYMEN.

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

BOY ROBS HIS SISTERS

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] i United Press Association. 1

Sydney, June 20

On April 24 the residence of Captain Cox, at Wollahra, was burgled and jewellery to the value of £BO stolen. Last night the two Misses Cox were alone in the house, a brother named Roy, aged sixteen, having just previously left. There was a knock at the door, and when it was opened a masked man presented a revolver at Miss Cox and demanded a diamond ring that she was wearing, valued at £l5O. She refused and struck the intruder, who knocked her down. Her sister came to her assistance, and in a lengthy struggle the sisters received several wounds on their heads and bodies. They managed to belabor the burglar, but eventually the intruder overcame the sisters, and each handed over a ring. The man then decamped. Earlier in the night a man named Leggatt was driving on the Belmore road when two masked men jumped out. . One seized his bridle, and the other presented a revolver at him. They demanded money, and Leggatt handed over £3O. Jumping out of the buggy he startpd to run, and one highwayman fired, wounding his armBoth then decamped. There was a sensational development when a man named Laurence, and a boy Roy Cox were arrested and remanded on a charge of committing the robbery on April 24. The arrests resulted in a confession by Roy that he had arranged with Laurence to rob his sister last night. Ho also confessed that he and Laurence stuck up Leggatt, by whom young Cox was em oloyed until a few days ago. Cox held .the horse while Laurence robbed and shot Leggatt. The police have found the missing rings and a revolver, with one chamber discharged, in Laurence’s room. Leggatt states that £7O of his employer’s money was in his possession when he was stuck up. He leaped out of the buggy without surrendering nuv monev, and ran away. Three shots were fired. The ‘wound on his arm is not serious.

This afternoon Roy Cox and Laurence wore jointly charged with assaulting mnd robbing the -Misses Cox.