SHOT DOWN.

Thames Star, Volume LXII, Issue 17436, 26 September 1928, Page 6

SHOT DOWN.

LN BUSY SYDNEY STREET

YOUTH DYING—POLICE PUZZLED

Shot down by a gunman in sight of the busily-moving throngs in Rawson Place, Leslie Grano, aged 21, was admitted to Sydney Hospital in a critical condition, suffering from a bullet wound in the left lung (says a Sydney paper).

There is no motive behind the-shoot-ing. the police have been told, unless it was just the gunman’s way of showing off his bravado.

Grano. with several companions, was walking along Rawson Place towards George Street, when a man came from the middle of the road and barred their wav.

“You get out of this place, and be quick!” he said. Grano and his mates thought it was a. joke. They laughed at him. The mail who accosted them then drew a revolver, and without further word pulled the trigger. Grano dropped like a log, with a bullet wound in the left shoulder, from which bl.uod began to ooze. CONSTABLE HEARS SHOOTING. Constable GimbeVt. who was on duty in George Street, heard the shooting. When ho reached the scene the gunman had disappeared. The constable assisted the Central Ambulance to take, the patient to Sydney Hospital. William Luff of Harris Street . .Tilth-■

mo; Sydney Hr Bendall. of Ainsworth Street. Leichhardt; and Jack Holliday, of Irving Street. City, were with Grano when he was shut. Grano. they said, did not know the gunman. “He was a stranger to all of us. and there was no earthly reason why he should have picked on us.” -

Bendall said that he was in front of the gunman when he whipped the revolver from an overcoat pocket. “1 ducked.” he said, “and the bullet hit Grano.”

After the shooting .it is said, the gunman coolly pocketed the revolver, and strolled along with a companion to a near-by corner, where he stayed for a minute or two. before he crossed George Street and disappeared down a side lane.

Bendall followed the gunman for several- hundred yards in the hope of seeing a policeman. There was a wild scatter in Rawson Street when the shot was fired. Several men. believed to have been companions of the gunman, joined in the general breakawav.