DESPERATE FIGHT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10700, 22 August 1912, Page 5

DESPERATE FIGHT

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Auociation —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

WITH AREV3ED BURGLAR MELBOURNE MAN'S EXPERIENCE. (Received Last Night., 11.5 o'cloc-.i ) MELBOURNE, August 21. Mr Geoffrey Syme, one cf the proprietors of the Age newspaper, had a sensational encounter with a burglar. He wag awakened by a man in his bedroom, who was currying an electric lamp. The intruder presented a revolver at Mr Syme, who grappled with him.

• ,A fierce struggle followed, the burglar firing several shots, one of which grazed Mr Syme'g arm. He eventually overmastered the bilrglar, and held him till assistance arrived.

The man was severely handled and removed to the gaol hospital. Mr. Syme i. s confined to bed, with several punctures in his breast inflicted by h:/s assailant with a pair of snips.

FURTHER DETAILS

A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

THE BURGLAR OVERPOWERED

(Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock.)

MELBOURNE, August 21. Tn the struggle the combatants rolled down the stairs locked together. Mr Syme secured the burg'ar'fi Browning revolver, and battered tlie latter's head till be became unconscious. The heads of both wore severely cut by the fall. Mr Syme's toe nail was torn off and one of his fingers was bitten almost through. He bled extensively from wounds in the chest.

His assailant became violent in the ■hospital, and was strapped to a bed.

I lip police have identified him as "Ginger'? Moore, a notorious criminal, and the alleged leader of a gang of masked burglars, who some' time ago terrorised Sydney. He was recently released after serving a long sentence for burglary