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The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 15

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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15
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Ooclcf Nolo: Spring Parly Goers Rush Leo Dartrdbiq new If 1 i i i I I III II I II i mm. USUAL PRICE SALE-PRICE 24gn PESCHANIKI cape-stole 12gn 3Qp SQUIRREL model c'stole 15sn 50gn Superb Eastern MINK STOLE now 25sn 60gn Theatre stole of BLUE FOX 30sn 7Qgn Lavish KOLINSKY cape-stole 35rjn llOgn F'length coat of SQUIRREL-Iock 55Cn 90gn RANCH MINK MODEL cape-stole 4SCn 120gn HAZE MINK C'stole 65Cn 290gn BREATH-W-SPRING INK c'stole of magnificent stranded pelts 145 en HUNT FOR GOLD BAGS If. on party The buried loot of "Cranky" Sam Poo, Australia's Chinese bushranger, has the Central West town of Gulgong agog with excitement. The town's population of 1 ,500 will be doubled next month during gold rush festivities to search for the buried gold bags of the slant-eyed bushman who held up travellers in pidgin English. A 'I And local oldtimer, Mr FABULOUS RACE DAY tating his deposition to the farmer.

One of early Australia's biggest manhunts was organised for Cranky Sam, with every available man scouring the but they found only small camp fires where he had been. Then three troopers called in a blacktracker and tracked him down to thick scrub on Barney's Reef mountain. "IP! J1. COLLECTION ARRIVES! Sheer Intoxicating drama for th socialites who havo a daring approach to fashion. Suits an4 Ensembles with magnificent dash nervel Cocktail Hour models too Ballerinas from our 30-60 collection.

Terrific reductions tomorrow. Reduced to 25gn, 15gn AND 10GN. mtwOoD 14S i HO U. BUtWOOO. 10 mins from Central ty train, 25yds from Burwood Station.

Easy parking. Rich logend From OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ONDON, Sal. A 17-year-old Belinda en holm (nic- Reg Rowbotham, 90, will be on hand to describe the bushranger's deeds to the "city slickers." He will recall how the Chinese bandit shot and killed a trooper, survived a shotgun blast. which wounded hint in three places, and was hanged nine months later. The athletic Cranky Sam started his career as a gold fossicker just outside Gulgong in 1865, and practised horse riding.

pidgin-English, and shooting for his later career. For target practice he would sit at the entrance of his tent on the goldfields. and blaze away at a black stump with his rifle. Because he refused to take a mate to help with his diggings, his Chinese neighbours said of him "no good he fool." But the bushranger re plied: "You policeman me fire," which he did, wounding Ward in the side. Ward fired his pistol three times in reply without hitting Cranky Sam, who ran into the bush.

Ward was carried 50 miles to a homestead, and died the next day after dic- ired), spend whole of a 1,00 0 sterling Famous Automatic. FAMOUS TWINTUB Reduced from 141 ALL BRAND NEW Reduced from 229. After a fierce gunfight in which Cranky Sam shot the hat from the tracker's head and leapt from behind trees to blaze away at. the troopers, he was hit by a shotgun blast. As the Chinese raised himself and levelled his rifle at the troopers for the last time, Constable Hughes splintered the butt of his carbine on the bushranger's head.

After nine months medical treatment, Cranky Sam was hanged. But when the gold diggings began to peter out he took to the road, holding up travellers and robbing them of their gold. When trooper Constable Ward was told about the bushranger he did not be NOT REPOSSESSED ALL COVERED BY MANUFACTURER'S G'TEE AND BACKED BT OUR OWN SERVICE DEPT. on a party. The party will mark her out," and will be at Quaglino's in May-k in October.

Belinda's father. Captain AC. Denholm, was killed mg the last war. (Her grandmother left her 'legacy, and now she will it ensuring that 350 Jt have a good time at Party. Uwill probably cost more 1,000, she admits.

HOUSEHOLDER EEKEFITS 512 Parramotta Read PETERSHAM. (50 yirds Miller Brewery) Famous Television Famous Frig. Reduced Reduced from 229 from 198. 3 lieve the stories, because THE LEADING INSTALLATOR.S HIGH DENSITY VITREOUS CHINA HOUSBMPffi 2 METROPOLITAN SEPTIC SYSTEMS PTY. LTD.

OFFER YOU A FULLY INSTALLED IN CITY OR COUNTRY Chinese, generally, were quiet and law-abiding. Fully armed But he went to find out who had robbed the travellers and saw Cranky Sam, fully armed, scamper from the road into the bush. When he followed him he found himself bailed up with a rifle. In his dying deposition, Ward said he called out to Cranky Sam: "What are you doing put down your gun." 1 MlLWAlltfFF I1-1 aturdoy. (A.A.P.).

A family ousekeeper today confessed to tilling her employer's two small AUSTWUAN SEPTIC TAKKS HIES: INSPECTION. ADYICE. QUOTATION NO OUTSIDE FINANCE 2 YEARS' GUARANTEE. APPLICATION TO 6UI EXPERT WILL CALL AXY Tltf. 0oo Jhe boys, Donald 4, and his brother, 2 were found "in their beds by their pr-old father.

said the house. JW Lucille Adams, POST COUPON NOW FULL DEPOSIT FWST MONTHLY PAYAUNTS AFTER FULL IMSTALLATION irritated her by throwing toothpaste, toys and shoes about the apartment. She told police she was fascinated by reports of an Iowa baby sitter who was accused early this month of killing three children in a similar way. A few hours after the boys' father was admitted to hospital suffering from shock, his estranged wife ar. rived from Kansas City on a visit to the boys.

kiropoiitwi Sfpnc SYsiaj pnr. m. 147 wfc $rnttr. 9v FuB information on lh Stptic SytUmi BUCHMATO BURIED NEW YORK, Saturday (A.A.P.). More than 150 followers from all over the world today quietly watched the remains of the founder of the moral re-armament movement, Dr Frank Buchman, buried in the family grave at Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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