CONSTABLE SHOT
AFTER ARRESTING THIEVES. (Australian Press Association.) /Received this day at 9.25 a.m) SYDNEY, July 28. Arresting "two ihouse-breakers redhanded, at Vqßhluse Constable Ulrich commanded the" pair to ride in his side-ear to the lockup.. Ulrich had just started the machine when one man seized a revolver from the constable's holster and shot Uh’ich in the breast. The bullet was embedded in his back and the bicycle afid. side-car colliding with the, kerb; the robbers escaped, .held up a. passing motorist and compelled him to drive them to Surrey .Hills,..where they stopped the car and disappeared. Ulrich is in a serious condition.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1931, Page 6
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103CONSTABLE SHOT Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1931, Page 6
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