SHOT BY BURGLARS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1903, Page 3

SHOT BY BURGLARS.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Sydney, J<nuai y 19 A publican at Auburn waa oujb I early this morning by heaiing gr •:-.ns in his bir. On goiDg downstairs he fund the door open and a constable named L ng lying oa the floor, v.j.h a shot wound in the back of the head. . Tie unfortunate po' c man died whil«t b-.i' g conveyed to the hospital. There ore indications that Long surpris d burgltra and was shot while inv stigating their doi/g?. Received 19, 10.17 p.m. Sydney, January 19. The landlord w a awak«r ed by hearing a shot and ha ius'.oJ for tha door which ho fouod 1 eked. He heard a c uplfl of men e-ctpe at the front:. The m-n got away in a buggy which w:sawai'ing them, having secured «nly i f-w copper?, and a quantity of cigarettes. Ling held a revolver and a p>.rtially burned m -tch io his hnnds.

Evidently the burgl «rs lay in wait for anl thoshim immediitely be ptssei the dcor. An utttmpt W ; "s made to burglarise tha hotel a f jrtnight ago, and Loog undertook to be p a s'earp Wi'ch on he premises, Received 20, 1,17 a.m. Sydnek, January 19. The Govarum-. ni has offered a reward tf <£2oo in concejtion wiih the Auburn murder.