EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 5

EPIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES.

CABLE NEWS

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

A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.

LA UN DRY.MA.N" S Kit J OUSLY WOUNDED.

(Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) {SYDNEY, May 7. After a, desperate .stniggh>, a burglar twice shot Mr Overtoil, proprietor of tho Tyne Laundry at Manly, a suburb of Sydney, and escaped. Tim condition of Air Overton .is yorious. There luus been a recurrence of th ■ burglary boom of tate, and' frequent chwing robberies have occurred in tlu city and '.suburbs. Mr Overton was awakemed by a burglar in> his bedroom. with the man, and a fierce fight ensued. The intruder tired a revolver, wounding Overton :n the neck. In spite of the wound, however, Overton continued the struggle. The burglar again, fired, inflicting a wound in the stomach. Retaining his hold, he was dracged down the passage, where the burglar shook himself free, and escaped wit]) £2O worth of jewellery. At Rose Bay, earlier in the night, an armed marked man terrorised and locked up Alderman Kelly's servants, fl© secured a quantity of silverware. At Clyde two men stuck up the caretaker of the Football Association grounds and appropriated all tlr> cash on the premises. At Annadale, a burglar visited the home of a railway employee who was absent at work, and forced his wife at the point of a revolver, to accompany him to a room, while he mad? a fiisarth. His only reward was the husband's supper, ready on the table, which he ate. In every case the burglars escaped.