SYDNEY HIGHWAY ROBBERS.
CONVICTED AND SENTENCED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oouyrisht (l{«c. August 5, 8.50 p.m.) Sydney, August 5. In connection with the recent highway robbory and sticking up cases in Sydney, L'auirencc has been sentenced to five'years'imprisonment for breaking and entering, ten years for robbory and violence, and fourteen years' penal servitude for sticking up and wounding, tho sentences to run concurrently. Roy Cox was sentenced to two years each'on three similar charges,
On the eveniig of June 19 last a masked mau robbed two young ladies named Cos, wjio woro alono in their house, of their, diamond rings, one of which was valued at .£l5O. The 'Misses Cox belabour'Od,|tlie burglar, powered, Earlidr on'the'same night a man named Leggatt, while driving on tho Bolmoro Road, was attackod by two masked men. Leggatt had «CTO of his employer's money in his possession at the time. He managed to escape. Threio shots were fired at him. Two luer. named Laurence and Roy Cox were arrested on a charge of committing the robbery at tho Cox's. Roy Cox confessed that he and Laurence had arranged to rob the sisters, and that tlioy had also stuck up Leggatt, a former employer. '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1821, 6 August 1913, Page 7
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196SYDNEY HIGHWAY ROBBERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1821, 6 August 1913, Page 7
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