A SYDNEY SENSATION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 July 1913, Page 5

A SYDNEY SENSATION

CABLENEWS (United Preu Auociation—Bf, fltoiric Telegraph—o ight.)

ROBBERS COMMITTED #Q2t / TkTATi. STATEMENTS BY ACCUSED. (Received this morning 12.25 o'clock.) ■ • SYDNEY, June 30. Roy Cox and a man named Law-,' renco have been comniitted far trial on charges of breaking and entering the house of Qipt. Cox, on April 24th» and stealing jewellery valued at £3OO, °n June 19th, of assaulting and ribbing Miss Cox of a ring valued <hi USIOO. A statement made to the polio* toy each of the accused was read. Cox's statement indicated that ha adopted Lawrence's suggestion', to commit the robberies, while Icirrencc'a declared that Cox told him %• was committing the robberies fttin lis father in order to keep himself in money, and together they arranged the two robberies with which they were charged. Lawrence further stated that the "sticking-up" of Clegg was suggested >y Cox, who demanded Clegjfs money and fired the revolver while Lawrence held the horse. [ln April last the house of Captain Cox, a wealthly resident of one of Sydney's suburbs, was entered \ and jewellery. valued .at £SOO takm. no clue as to the perpetrators "being-.>! left. A few weeks, ago a masked individual entered the same house, and • after a desperate struggle with the Misses Cox, who were alone in tie house, a diamond ring, valued fet £IOO, was handed over to the burglar. Later on the same evening, a man was hailed up while driving along the road, and after handing over his valuables, ran away. He was fired at > by one of the highwaymen, r and wounded. Subsequently two persons were arrested, and confessed to the crimee, one of the accused being % eon of Captain Cox.] ,