WEEK-END CRIME AROUND SYDNEY
Received Sundav, 7.80 p.m. S Y 1) X E V , Sept. 22. Over 800 people were taken into .eustody lust -night by special police IpatrltlA for dninkenness, brawling and sbffensive behaviour. A mobile patroi. Kri'bsted 4t en men i'ho stoppedhi mick 17 v forming a. eordon and assaulted ihe driver. Thugs bashed a young- man who was walkiag in 1'itt Slreet in broad dayliglit with his lianeee. A large erowd gathered in tliis aiul anolher ineident at (tranville where a 00 year-old man was struck down, but nobody intervened. One \i>-tim sufl'ered a fraetured s ku 1 1 and the uthei i'oik'U sion and a broken noBe. Pistinhed in Ihe aet of blowing a sal'e at Suiry ilills post ofliee last night, two eraeksinen fired six shots in response to oue from a police eon"talile. All seven shots missed and the safebreakers. Jeaping a 7-foot •w.all, ran through a private liome and eseaped in a ear. Wireless patroi cars soon took . up the elnise. The shooting began when a eonstabJe spotlight ed the escaping men at 20 yards.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1946, Page 5
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