POLICE RUSH IN
police effect arrest at revolver point. SYDNEY, Saturday. The house in Thurlow Street, Redfern, in which George Alfred Cooper, bookmaker, was killed in May, was
last night the scene of another seAsational affair, when two men are alleged to have held up the occupant at revolver point. Detective-Sergeant Comans and Detectives Hughes, Tyler and Martin rushed the house with revolvers drawn and arrested two men, one of whom, it is alleged, dropped a revolver and tried to kick it heneath a table. The police were told that the two men visited the house, and, threatening to use a revolver, demandfed £5 from the occupant, Sydney McCarthy, who gave evidence in tbe murder trial which followed Cooper's death. The man charged with the crime was acquitted a fortnight ago. McCarthy, under the pretence of getting the money, left, and telephoned the police.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 39, 8 October 1931, Page 4
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