DARLINGHURST HOLD-UP

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2181, 20 June 1914, Page 5

DARLINGHURST HOLD-UP

— —_ 9, —.*— KERNAHA.N ACQUITTED.. fiy Telegraph-I'i'tos Asse-maWon—Copyright' Sydney, Juno 19. When ike jury returned a verdirt deehmnf .Daviti Kernshan nat guilty of pfttieipatkg in tlw Dariingiittrst hold,n» in May last, a mimJrer of people ftjs'wauded:. Judgo Bnefthoue:© h«d beau 'kt'iyuiiig watejlij and ho eallccl 011 ta*o ef-'fenac-rs to (mow cause why tjaey shouW hot be .fined 40.5. <«aeh, and bo ordered to bo kejii in prison ittitil'tlio fine, was .paid.. Both paid the fkios, and wars released. • • ■ The iwM*iip (it .Bi»r.lin#«i' : s't was the most sensational for waft. It occur roil at I o'efeck on the niGming of. Stay ft. About twenty persons were In Ihe house celebrating flic birthday of. one erf Hl.O family, Stiddnnfy a tall 'masked m.a« Wt.!>i.'Gft, pr&wMted a revolver,, ;vi«l ordered "JTsiids np'" I'he party was staggered. The iiinslcct! httiii then wkisfM,' mid three others np-peated;, The «ivi-i*r o£ tho house entered n protest,' but was silenced by' the cursing; of thertMii, whp postal tlteir revolvers lip to his face\ The party stood .In a seinucircle, while the .inirhdws calmly went through their pockets, and stale Sitif) in nwiwy and jewellery. Oiks of the gn-esi;?. attempted to escape.fey the 'hack dSftr, Bf«t a robber pwinwtlj? fifed, tie revolver skat bringing the f jntitiv* to a standstill After emailing out tke patty •the mtn tjaeked through fto' clcwr, stffi tlweatenini! with revs'ilvers, Isoardeij motorciirs. a3«I decamped, later, the detectives sirrsstel KsMiflhaiu age<l S5, '^■hft. was charged with and roljljing oti.e of thfl (finests.