CONSTABLE SHOT
BY ARMED BANDITS. £940 STOLEN FROM FIRM’S EMPLOYEES.
(Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, November 21. While acting as an armed escort to three employees of a city firm, carrying a bag containing £940 to the bank, Plain-clothes Constable Charles Derham, aged twenty-nine, was shot through the head when three armed bandits held them up in Flinders Lane. The robbers then grabbed the money and decamped in a car. The street was crowded at the time with late shoppers. The constable’s condition is critical.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1931, Page 5
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84CONSTABLE SHOT Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1931, Page 5
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