TWO MEN SHOT.
TRAGEDY IN ROAD CAMP,
(BT CABLE—PEERS ASSOCIATION—COr-YRIOnT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND S.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
SYDNEY, February 3,
The police have received advice of a shooting tragedy at a road construction camp near Hillston. Two shots were heard by the occupant of a tent, who, on investigating, found the two occupants of another tent, Andrew Morris and Henry Davis, 6hot dead. A repeating riflo was beside the bodies. There arc no other details to hand. THE POLICE THEORY. (AUSTBALIAV AKD N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received February 3rd, 10.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, February 3. The police theory in connexion with the Hillston deaths is that Davis shot Morris as a result of what is thought to have been a drunken quarrel.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 11
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