CROOK SHOT DEAD
CHASE BY CONSTABLE FIRED AT PURSUER By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 11.30 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. William Henry Wilks, an interational safe-breaker and burglar, was shot dead by a constable at Manly. Wilks and confederates were seen about to break into tea rooms at North Steyne. His companion escaped, but after a chase over fences, through backyards, lanes and streets, Wilks produced a revolver and fired, when the pursuing constable closed with him. but the shot missed. The constable then fired, the bullet reaching Wilks’s heart. He died immediately.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 301, 12 March 1928, Page 1
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