MURDER & ROBBERY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 5

MURDER & ROBBERY

SAVAGE ACT OF BANDITINO IN MELBOURNE EMPLOYEE OF COMPANY SHOT DEAD. ' THIEVES ESCAPE IN CAR WITH PAYROLL. By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. MELBOURNE. September 1. Bandits this afternoon held up a motor-car at Collingwood, shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47, stole the payroll for the employees of the Sherry Shoe Company, of Clifton Hill, and escaped in another car. The police are of the opinion that the bandits waited outside the bank where Sherry was drawing the employees' money and followed his car, at which they fired two shots. Sherry stopped the car, alighted, and tried to escape, but fell in the gutter, whereupon a young masked man leapt from the pursuing car and fired' two shots point-blank into Sherry’s body. Henry Thomas, who was driving Sherry’s car, went to the latter’s assistance, but was knocked down, after which the money was stolen. BANDITS OUTWITTED. PART OF MONEY SAVED. (Recd This Day, 10.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. It is now stated that Henry Thomas escaped with £550 in his pockets. The thieves obtained £l3O, this amount being in the bag. Mr Sherry had stuffed the notes into Thomas’s pockets during the chase.