CRIME IN SYDNEY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 297, 8 May 1913, Page 5

CRIME IN SYDNEY

i THE BURGLARY BOOM. [ A DESPERATE FIGHT. : ; - A SERIES OP CRIMES. ■By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. 1 Received 7, 8.5 p.m. i Sydney, May 7. After a desperate struggle a burglar ■ twice shot Mr. Overton, proprietor of the 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 his bedroom. He grappled with him, and a fierce fight ensued. The intruder fired a revolver, wounding Overton in the neck. In spite of his wound he continued the struggle, and the burglar again fired, inflicting a wound in tha stomach. Retaining his hold Overton was dragged into the passage, when the burglar shook himself free, and escaped with £2O worth of jewellery. At Rose Bay, earlier in the night, an armed masked man terrorised and locked up Alderman Kelly's servants and secured a quantity of silverware. At Clyde two men stuck up the caretaker of the Football Association Grounds and appropriated all the cash on the premises. At Annandale a burglar visited the hdme of a railway employee who was absent at work, and forced his wife at the point of a revolver to accompany him into a room while be searched. The I only reward was the husband's supper, |;which was ready oh" the table, and which he ate. In all the cases the criminals escaped. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. MOTHER SHOOTS HER CHILD. AND COMMITS SUICIDE. Received 7, 8.50 p.m. Sydney, May 7. A tragedy is reported from Leichardt. ' Mrs. Cheyne, who was suffering from depression and, ill-health, shot her three- i year-old child, wounding it dangerously, and then shot herself dead. ——^———~—■»