MURDERS IN SYDNEY
A GAME CONSTABLE.
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Aaifct&an and N.Z. Cable Association.
SYDNEY, December 25. Two tragedies marked Christmas' Eve. A policeman saw two men quarrelling to a street in Surrey Hills (Sydney suburb), but before he was able to reach them a shot was fired and one of thorn dropped dead. The constable chased the assailant, who turned and fired/wounding the conetable in the neck. The constable plucked out the bullet with his fingers, and succeeded m arresting the man after a desperate straggle. At Besley a butcher' battered his wife to death Svith the butt end of a gun, and then shot himself.
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Evening Star, Issue 17234, 26 December 1919, Page 5
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MURDERS IN SYDNEY
Evening Star, Issue 17234, 26 December 1919, Page 5
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