Desperate Encounter with Burglars.
FOUR POLICEMEN SERIOUSLY INJURED. (peb press association. ) Sydney, This Day. A desperate affray took place at an early hour this morning in Bridge street, between the police and burglars. Constables Ball, McCore, and Lyons shadowed three men whom they saw leaving the Union Steamship Company's offices. When the two parties got close together the burglars turned round and drew their jemmies, felling McCore aud Lyous, whom they knocked senseless with crushing blows on the head. Ball, who evaded several blows directed at him, started in pursuit of the men, and oue of the latter drew a revolver, but did not use it. Several other constables joined in the hunt, and after a desperate struggle, in wbich two more constables were severely injured, two of the burglars were captured, but the third man succeeded in making his escape. It is thought the burglars expected to take a lot of cash in the Union Company's ' office iv the shape of passenger fares by the Mararoa, which left for Auckland ] yesterday, but they were disturbed be- ' fore they got anything. Tho four con- ' stables who were injured were takeu to ' the hospital, and at the latest accounts ' were in a serious condition. 1
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 229, 2 February 1894, Page 2
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