DARING BURGLARIES.
By telegraph, Presa Aos’n, Copyright
Received 9.25 e.m., Dec 26,
Melbourne, Dec 26
Fletoher, a grooor in Bourke street discovered a burglar on his premises and taokled him. A sovere struggle ensued. The intruder, with a revolver, shot Fletcher in the broast, injuring him seriously and escaped with the contents of the till.
Burglars entered CurrieV, an ironI monger, of No.th Melbourne, adj-.iaiog the National Bank. They pierced a fourfoot hole against tho bank’s s rong room, but failed to enter the strong room owing to the wall being faced with concrete. They oonsoled themselves with rifliog Currie’s stock.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1635, 27 December 1905, Page 2
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