SYDNEY HOLD-UPS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 227, 27 September 1935, Page 7

SYDNEY HOLD-UPS

YOUNG LABOURER CHARGED. Received Sept. 26, 7.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 26. His head swathed in. bandages, Frank Howard John Carpenter Jones, aged 20, labourer, appeared before a magistrate at the suburb of Burwood to answer eight charges which included shooting at and wounding Allen Clarke, and shooting at Arthur Jay at North Straithfichl with intent to commit murder. Accused was also charged that being armed with a revolver he robbed George Gray at Straithfield and attempted to rob Demetrius Mylonas at Burwood. The other charges related to breaking, euteri ng and theft. A police sergeant said that hearing a. call for help, he went down to the Concord municipal quarry and found defendant about 90 yards from a burning shed. Defendant was very badly injured. A detective-sergeant tendered statements allegedly made by defendant in which it described how Jones held up the stationmaster at. North Struth field, He was alleged to have stated that he had no intention of shooting Jay as the revolver accidentally went off. while the shot which struck Clarke had been intended to go into the floor. The alb ged statements also described the hold-ups. The police, tendered no evidence, and Jones made no statement leading to his accident at the quarry, when two revolvers and a complete burglar’s eouin meat were found near the scene of his rescue. Jones was commit ted for trial nt the Criminal Court on November 18.