SYDNEY PARK GANG.
ONE ARRESTED FOR MURDER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 11. 9.25 p.m. Sydney, Feb. 11. Recently Constable Wolgast was shot dead while attempting to arrest a man in Centennial Park; suspected of bagsnatching, and now a man named Speechley has been arrested and committed for trial on a charge of murdering Constable Wolgast. Evidence by actual participators in the depredations disclosed that for years the park has been haunted by a big gang known as “The Centennial Park Hundred”, who dogged people, and indulged in bag-snatching and blackmailing. Some operated in the daytime, but mostly at night, when lover couples were the chief victims. The sections of the gang were known as “daysiders” and “night-workers.” l —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 5
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124SYDNEY PARK GANG. Taranaki Daily News, 12 February 1921, Page 5
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