SYDNEY CRIME EPIDEMIC.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13412, 9 May 1912, Page 5

SYDNEY CRIME EPIDEMIC.

THREE MORE BURGLARIES

JAPANESE ROBBED OF DIAMONDS

(Received May 8, 9.15 p.m.)

Sydney, May 8

Three burglaries, resulting in hauls of £20, £70, and £150 were reported to-day. One unsuccessful attempt at burglary was made.

A man driving a sulky was bailed up in North Sydney by two armed men and robbed of £8.

A member of the Japanese Parliament, who is staying at Sydney, is reported to have been robbed of £500 worth of diamonds. The manner of tho robbery has been kept secret.