ARMED BURGLARS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 8 May 1913, Page 5

ARMED BURGLARS.

TERRORISE AND SHOOT.

IN SEVERAL CASES IN SYDNEY

I By Electric Telegraph—'Copyright] [United Press Association •

Sydney, May 7

After a desperate struggle a burglar twice shot Mr Overton, proprietor of tlio Tyne laundry, at Manly, and escaped. The condition of Overton is serious.

There has been a recurrence of the burglary boom lately, and frequent daring robberies in the city and suburbs.

Overton was awakened by a burglar in bis bedroom. He grappled with him, and a fierce fight ensued. The intruder fired a revolver, wounding Overton in the neck. In spite of bis wound ho continued the struggle, and the burglar again fired, inflicting a wound in the stomach. Retaining his hold Overton was dragged into the passage, when the, burglar shook himself free, and escaped wit! £2O worth of jewellery. At Rose Bay, earlier in the right an armed marsked man terrorised anc. locked up Alderman Kelly’s servants and secured a quantity of silverware. At Clyde two men stuck np the caretaker of the Football Association Grounds and appropriated all the cash on the premises. At Annandale a burglar visited the home of a railway employee who was absent at work, and forced his wife at tiro point of a revolver to accompany him into a room while he searched. The only reward was the busband’s supper, which was ready on the table, and which be ate.

In all the cases the criminals e* raped.

MOTHER SHOOTS HER CHILD.

AND COMMITS SUICIDE

Sydney, May 7

A tragedy is reported from Leichardt. Mrs Cheyne, who was sufferin' from depression and ill-health, shot her three-year-old child, wounding it dangerously, and then shot herself dead.