POLICE ARREST BANDITS
CAUGHT RED-HANDED IN SHOP SHOT FIRED AT WOMAN SYDNEY, Monday. Two masked robbers, who had secreted themselves in a butcher’s shop at Redfern owned by Michael Briggs, this evening bound and gagged Briggs, covered him with revolvers and commenced to hunt for cash. The intruders discovered a bottle of whisky and impudently consumed a large portion of the contents. A woman neighbour heard the men threatening Briggs and she telephoned to the pplice, who dashed to the scene in a motor-car. They arrested the bandits, but not before a shot had been fired by one of them at the woman who had given the alarm. The two men, William Wilton and William Nelson, were remanded on charges of robbery under arms, and Nelson was also charged with having fired a revolver with intent to murder.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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138POLICE ARREST BANDITS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 9
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