SYDNEY BURGLARIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13976, 8 May 1913, Page 5

SYDNEY BURGLARIES.

FREQUENT AND OARING ROBBERIES. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE. Press Association. —Telegraph Copyright - . SYDNEY, May 7. After a desperate .struggle, a burglar twice shot.Mr Overton, the proprietor of the Tyne Laundry at Manly, and escaped. The condition of Overton is serious. .< There has been a recurrence of the’ burglaryboom la tely * There; have been frequent and daring robberies in the city, and suburbs. •

Mr Overton.was awakened by a burglar in his bedroom. Ho- grappled and had-a fierce fight with the intruder, who fired a revolver, wounding Mr Overton in. the; neck. In spite of the wound lib continued the struggle. Ik© burglar again fired, inflicting, a wound in the.- stomach. Retaining his hold, he , was. dragged into the passage. The burglar thou shook himself free, and escaped with i!2O worth of Jewellery. , , f At Rose Bay earlier in. the night ah armed and masked man terrorised and locked up Alderman Eelly-’s. servants, .and secured a quantity of silverware. At Clyde two men stuck -up the caretaker of the Football Association’s grounds and appropriated all the cash on ■ ■ the premises. „ . .

At Annanddle ft burglar visited the homos of a railway employee, absent at work, and forced his wife at the .point of a revolver to accompany him While' he searched. The only reward was the husband’s supper ready on the table, which the burglar ate. In all these cates the men escaped, u