SHOPKEEPER'S DEATH
«. MAN COMMITTED ON MURDER CHARGE (Received May 10, 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 10. Tlie long-delayed coroner's enquiry into the death of Paul Drasdorff, aged 47, a shopkeeper, of Waver ley, who was shot dead on September 1 by an armed thief, was held to-day, and resulted in Leslie Warburton being committed for trial on a charge of murdering Drasdorff. Detectives gave evidence that Mrs Drasdorff identified .Warburton in a line up of nine men at the gaol. Warburtoi had taken the detectives to the cemetery at Randwick, where he indicated where a pair of rubber gloves and an automatic pistol were lying in the grass. Warburton denied that he was concerned in the shooting of Drasdorff.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21470, 11 May 1935, Page 15
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