A SYDNEY CRIME.
THE EVELEIGH HOLD-UP.
FREEMAN SENTENCED TO
DEATH
(Recoived Last Night, 10.5 o'clock ) SYDNEY, Ai»nsi 31.
The death sentence has boon iecorded against Samuel Freema i ,'')•• the shooting of the watch.n.i.i :n the Oxford Street Post Office.
[Early in the morning of June !••', too watchman at the Oxford f'tr.'et I'-ist Office- beard someone ii'srb the building. He fastened the door and v.oT.t tc obtain assistance. He'had only proceeded a few yards when a man nho had evidently been watching bis frnen.t-rits, fired a vovolv°r she h-Jht "a.ssing through the wat?iiman's cheek, and striking a man who was standing on '.he footpath- knocking out -hreo ot" bis teeth. The watchman fv>i three Aiois at b:'s assailant, who succored in escaping. The man lockod in, alarmed at the firing, broke the fanlight, reached the back of the building, descended by the fire-escape and got away. Freeman was also arrested on a charge of being a ringleader in the Eveleigh hold-up.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 September 1914, Page 5
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160A SYDNEY CRIME. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 September 1914, Page 5
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