VENOMOUS SNAKES
SYDNEY POLICE IN INFESTED
AREA
SYDNEY, November 1
A week ago Henry Slater, a former leader of Sydney's underworld, was shot dead when about to board a tram
at Yarra Bay. The affair was witnessed by a youth who declares that the murderer decamped on a bicycle.
The scene of the murder, about eight miles south of the city in the vicinity of Botany Bay and chiefly scrubland, was today combed by 50 police, whose search for the weapon was entirely fruitless, but the expedition encountered no fewer than 30 venomous snakes of varying lengths and colours. All were killed.
(Received November 2, 2 p.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day
Detectives later found a rifle under a stone. A man has been charged with murder.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 108, 2 November 1940, Page 10
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