EIGHT CHARGES

Evening Star, Issue 22145, 27 September 1935, Page 11

EIGHT CHARGES

SHOOTING AND WOUNDING ALLEGED NEW SOUTH WALES BASE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, September 26. With his head swathed in bandages, Frank Howard John Carpenter Jones, aged 20, a labourer, appeared before the magistrate at the suburb of Bur* wood to answer eight charges, which included shooting and wounding Allen Clarke and- shooting at Arthur Jay at North Strathfield with intent to commit murder. The accused was also charged that, being armed with a revolver, he .robbed George Gray at Strathfield, and attempted to rob Demetrius Mylonas at Bunvood. Other, charges related to breaking, entering, and theft.

A police sergeant said that, hearing a call for help, he went down to Concord municipal quarry, and found the defendant about 90yds from a burning shed. The defendant was very badly injured. , • i A detective sergeant tendered statements allegedly made by the defendant, in which it was described how Jones held up the station master at North Strathfield. He is alleged to have stated that he had no intention of shooting Jay, as the revolver accidentally went off, while the shot which struck Clarke had been intended to go into the floor.. The alleged also described hold-ups. The police tendered no evidence, and .Tones made no statement, leading to his accident at the quarry, when two revolvers and a complete burglar’s equipment were found near the scene of hia rescue.

■ Jones was committed for. trial at the Criminal Court on November 18.

[A masked man held up the station master, Mr Arthur Jay, at North Strathfield suburban railway station at midnight, and demanded the booking office takings. Jay told the intruder he had no money and no keys, whereupon a shot was fired in his direction. This attracted two porters, one of whom, Mr Allen Clarke, defied the bandit, and was shot in the abdomen. On July 27 a mysterious explosion occurred at a powder magazine in the municipal quarry at Concord, arid a man was found terribly injured. When the man was being rescued the police found a loaded revolver and an unloaded one not far from the victim, whose face and body were severely battered and burned. Even his clothes were smouldering. He told tho police that he attempted to enter the shed containing the explosives to sleep, when he was blown into the quarry, which is 30ft deep and full of rocks.]