GUNMEN CLEAR DECKS FOR FRESH GANG WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1077, 15 September 1930, Page 9

GUNMEN CLEAR DECKS FOR FRESH GANG WAR

SYDNEY CRIME-RIDDEN FATAL WINE-BAR BRAWL United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 12.10 p.m. SYDNEY, Today. A young man, Lancelot Saidler, was shot dead in a wine bar in Elizabeth Street on Saturday afternoon. It is alleged that he demanded money from the proprietor, who refused to give him any, and that Saidler then threatened him with a razor. In the resultant confusion the fatal shot was fired. Saidler was vaulting over the bar counter when the proprietor, E. A. Good, fired a revolver, as he told the detectives, in self-de-fence. Good has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. The police fear that the shooting of Saidler will start a new gang warfare. Scrawled on the door of the wine saloon where Saidler was shot were the words: “I am going to get you. 1 will kill, too.” TAXI DRIVERS ROBBED Armed masked robbers were busy again during the week-end. Two taxi drivers were held up and robbed. One was gagged and the other sand-bagged before being relieved of their takings. Chinese who refused to give two men money were felled with the butt of a revolver. The police chased a wanted man along a city street, and . when cornered the man drew a revolver. After a sharp struggle he was disarmed and arrested. A second case of this kind occurred at Botany, when a man who was wanted on numerous robbery charges menaced the i lice with a gun. Pie and two associates were arrested. A shooting affray occurred at Enfield tram depot, when a conductor, after firing two shots at the depot master, turned the revolver on himself and died in hospital. Numerous cases of house robberies are reported. Two thousands pounds’ worth of jewels were stolen from a Paddington home. Eric Chalmers and George Maloney were stabbed in the yard of an hotel at Perth. Chalmers died of injuries. Maurice Alexander has been arrested on a charge of unlawful killing.