THREE MEN SHOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1920, Page 12

THREE MEN SHOT.

LAWLESSNESS IN MELBOURNESEQUENCE OF CASES. Melbourne, May fi. While drinking a cup of cofl'ee at a pie stall in the southern part nf Sydney Road, Brunswick, late last night, Sydney Spiller, a young man employed by the Brunswick Council on a stone-crush-ing machine, heard a shot and felt a stinging pain in his leg. He found a slight flesh wound had been inflicted, which was treated at the Melbourne Hospital. BULLET WOUND OVER THE HEART. With a bullet wound below the heart, George Oxley, of Cobden Stret, South Melbourne, was admitted to the Homoeopathic Hospital late last night. His condition was serious, though it is riot considered critical. A young woman named Kennedy last night went to see some friends at a house in Cobden Stret. Several young men were there, and when the party was just about to leave the woman's luis'band, Leslie Kennedy, a laborer, 27 years of age, arrived at. the house and spoke to a/ man, He was ordered out of the house and took Ilia wife with hini. In the street Oxley and Kennedy commenced to scuffle, and a shot was fired, the bullet striking Oxley. He was taken by his mates to the hospital in a motor-ear. MEAT AXE v. REVOLVER. Kntering the Yarraville Police Station yesterday evening in a state of excitement, a Chinese market gardener, AH Pah, living in Somcrville Road, Yarraville, gasped that there was a robber in his hut- Two constables went to the hut with Ah Pali, but found no intruder there. A bullet wound in the shoulder of the Chinese proved that his complaint was not groundless. He had been' lighting a lire in his hut, lie said, when a man wearing a mask looked in at the doorway, saving "Hullo Jimmy, what you got,?" The Chinese jumped up from his crouching posture before t-ho fire, and as he did so he saw a flash and heard a report, and felt a stinging pain in his shoulder. The •wound was not serious, however, and, seizing a meat axe, Ah Pah made for thelman, who stood by the door with a revolver in Ms hand. The intruder fled.