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Police Get
Man Shot
Thursday
MELBOURNE, Sunday. - A
wounded man. wh dtliaplw;penred af
ter having been shot by police fol.
lowing a car chase through subur
ban streets early on Thursday morn
ing, was arrested to.day.
After having visited a farm at
Tallamarine, detectives arrested a
24-year-old gardener of South
Yarra, and charged him with theft
and having illegally used a car.
They also laid a charge of iheft of
a police pistol.
Police said the man had a bullet
wound in his right buttock.
Medical Aid
He had received no medical aid,
and police took him to Royal Mel
bourne Hospital for treatment.
Later to-day twso other men,
aged 37 and 60, were charged with
larceny of a police pistol.
,Polte recovered .property, in-.
cluding wireless sets, clothing and
wsvo rolls of carpet.
Police alleged that after the man
was shot in Pascoe Vale South, a
passing motorist was hiled and
asked .to stand guard over the
wttnded ntls wht[ tensenth was
being made for another man.
A policeman gave the motorist
his pistol. When the police re
turned both the wounded man his
guard arid the pistol had disap
peared. :
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