Three Persons Shot by Sniper Hidden in Thick Scrub Received 9.20 a.m. MELBOURNE. To-day. THREE people—Percival Coffey, aged 11, with a bullet wound in his back; Miss Esther Patchett, aged 45. bullet wound in right thigh ; Miriam Coffey, aged 18, bullet wound in neck—were shot while sitting on the verandah of a house at lower Ferntree Gully, near Melbourne, in mysterious circumstances. The house is surrounded by thick scrub, of which a thorough search was made. Altogether, six shots were fired.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290318.2.101.1
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 9
Word Count
81Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in