CRIME IN SYDNEY.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 7

CRIME IN SYDNEY.

SOME BRUTAL ATTAOKS. man may lose sight. ANOTHER FELLED BY THUGS. Suburban * detectives (says a. Sydney paper) have been busy investigating a series of violent crimes, chiefly the throwing of a blinding powder into the face of Albert Bishop (40), of Homebush, in Ashfleld, and a reported brutal assault on Thomas William Aylwood (43), of BalmainDetectives believe that the assault upon Bishop was committed by would-be thieves, who, realising that they had done their intended victim grave injury, fled in fear without completing their plans. Bishop was walking along Liverpool Road when one of two men stopped him and asked him for a match. Bishop was about to oblige when one of them produced a paper bag and emptied its contents into Bishop’s face.

He was immediately blinded, and a passer-by, who found him staggering about the footway, telephoned the police. Detectives recovered Bishop’s hat, on which were white powder marks. The hat was sent to the Government analyst to determine the nature of the powder. Bishop was taken to Lewisham Hospital and admitted for treatment. It is possible that ho may lose his eyesight, but he was reported to be slightly improved. Hit from Behind. The Balmain affair occurred in Vincent Street. Aylwood was on his way home shortly before midnight. Two men approached him from behind, lie told tho police, and knocked him down. Aylwood jumped to ills feet and retaliated, but after a fierce struggle with tho two men was felled with a blunt instrument. The assailants ran away after rifling Aylwood’s pockets of £l2Aylwood got to his feet after a time and wandered a quarter of a mile before ho was found by policemen who were cruising in a P.D. car. They took him to hospital. It" Is not yet definitely known whether his skull Is fractured, but his condition is grave. Armed Hold-up. Parramatta detectives are still searching for the armed bandit who robbed Henry John, a Wenlworthville shopkeeper, just before midnight. John informed the police that he was bending down behind his counter when lie heard someone enter the shop. He then saw the intruder levelling a revolver at him. ‘‘Slick ’em up!” the gunman muttered. “Hand over the money." John hesitated, but. offered no resistance. The bandit leaned over tho counter and look £2 from the till. Bag SnatchodLeaping on to the footboard of a moving tram in Queen Street. Woollahra, a young man reached tTTe compartment In which Miss Alice Mac Kay, of Bondi, was seated, snatched her handbag and jumped oIT. The bag contained 12s Gd in money and other articles. Paddington police arc searching for the thief.