SYDNEY PARK GANG.
A CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD. MURDER CHARGE SEQUEL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 11, 10.20 p.m. Sydney, April 11. The trial of Charles Speechley, who is charged with the murder of Constable Wolgast in Centennial Park early in February, has commenced. [Constable Wolgast was shot dead while attempting to arrest a man in Centennial Park suspected of bagsnatching, and Speechley was 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 bagenatebing 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”.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1921, Page 5
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138SYDNEY PARK GANG. Taranaki Daily News, 12 April 1921, Page 5
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