ROBBERY & MURDER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5

ROBBERY & MURDER

INQUEST IN MELBOURNE FINDING AGAINST MISSING MAN. ANOTHER COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Coroner committed Selwyn Wallace, aged 22, a traveller, for trial on a charge of having murdered Frederick W. Sherry, who was shot during an attempt to steal a payroll. The Coroner found that Sherry was shot by a man whose name was unknown to him and who had been aided by Wallace. A cablegram from Melbourne on September 1 stated that bandits held up a motor-car at Callingwood, shot and killed Frederick William Sherry, aged 47, stole the payroll for the employees of the Sherry Shoe Co. and escaped in another car. Sherry, the cablegram stated, stopped his car, after two shots had been fired at it 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. It was later learned that Thomas escaped with £550 in his pockets. The thieves obtained £l3O, this amount being in the bag. Sherry had stuffed the notes into Thomas’s pockets during the chase.