ROBBED AND THROWN INTO SEA.
Sydney Business Man Dying in Hospital after Shocking Assault. £llOO TAKEN IN OUTRAGE ON FERRY. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received November 6, noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. EDYS ARD CHISHOLM, aged 61, secretary of a city firm, was brutally attacked on a harbour ferry early this morning, robbed of £llOO and then thrown into (he harbour by his attackers. Chisholm was able to keep afloat and his cries for help were heard by the ferry crew on its return trip to the city fifteen minutes later. Chisholm was admitted to hospital with a fractured skull, and his dying depositions have been taken. Chisholm was sitting alone in the bow of the boat, when two men approached and stunned him with a blow on the head. It is believed that his assailants mingled with the crowd and walked ashore when the ferry reached Neutral Bay.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20454, 6 November 1934, Page 1
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