ACCUSED OF MURDER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 47, 5 December 1929, Page 5

ACCUSED OF MURDER.

SYDNEY GANG WARFARE,. (United Press Association— Copyright.) 'Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Tins Day. The police yesterday arrested James Devine, on a charge of shooting Bernard Dftlton. Devine was recently acquitted of the murder of a gunman, Gaffney, who was shot during a gang raid at Devine's home at Maroubra. There was a violent underworld affray at Surrey Hills on November 10. A fusillade of revolver shots resulted in Bern aid Dal ton, aged U r ), an electrician, being shot dead. His companion, Walter Tomlinson, aged. 29, a wharf labourer, was shot in the chest. Edward Brady,' aged 29, received a bullet wound in'tbe right hand. Neither Brad lev nor Tomlinson would give the police any clue to their assailants. They simply staled that a dispute arose over the second Rugby League test in England. A cable message received yesterday stated: The police last night carried out a lonely hazardous trek along the foreshore of Botany Bay. over boulders through dense scrub to a lonely hut, where they arrested Francis Green, aired 29, and another man. Jhe former is> charged with murdering Dalton and the latter is charged with vagrancy. A further charge was preferred against Green to-day. or attempting" to murder Walter Tomlinson who was shot at the same tune as Daiton.