SHOT DOWN

Shannon News, 2 October 1928, Page 3

SHOT DOWN

IN BUSY SYDNEY STREET.

YOUTH DYING—POLICE PUZZLED.

Shot down by a gunman in sight of the busily-moving throngs iu Eawson Place, Leslie Grano, aged 21, was admitted to Sydney Hospital in a critical condition, suffering from a bullel wound in the left lung (says a Sydney paper). There is no motive behind the shooting, the police have been told, unless it was just the gunman's way of showing off his bravado. Grano, with several companions, was walking along Rawson Place towards George Street, when a man came from the middle of the road and barred their way. "You get out of this place, and be quick." he said. Grano and his mates thought it; was a joke. They laughed at him. ' The man who accosted them then drew a revolver, and without further 'word pulled the trigger. Grano dropped like a log, with a* bullet wound in the left shoulder, from which blood began to ooze. Oonstablo Hears Shooting., Constable Gimbert ,who was on 1 duty in George Street, heard the shooting When he reached the scene the'gunman had disappeared. The constable assisted the General Ambulance to take the patient to Sydney Hospital. William Luff, of Harris Street, Ultimo; Sydney H. Bendall, of Ainsworth Street, Leichardt; and Jack Holliday, of Irving Street, City, were with Grano when ho was shot.

Grano, they said, did not know the gunman. "He was a stranger to all of us, and there was no earthly reason »vhy he should have picked on us." Bendall said that he was in front of the gunman when he whipped the revolver from an overcoat pocket. "I ducked,"-he saidj-"and the bullet hit Grano."

After' the shooting: it -is said, the gunman cooly pocketed. the revolver, and strolled along with a companion to a near-by corner, where he stayed for a minute or two, before he crossed . George Street and disappeared down a side lane.. . . ... \ Bendall followed the gunman for several.hundred yards in the hope of seeing a policeman. "

' There was a wild scatter in Eawson Street when the shot was fired. Several nie'rij'believed' to havo la&eh companions of the ;gunman,~poinecT .inr the general bfeakaway.! 1 ;..-::•.." ■ -.-'. "J, * ; •; /_ '■' i- ' -'