MURDER SUSPECT ARRESTED AFTER NINE YEARS
SYDNEY, November 13. A man was arrested, and charged today for a bomb outrage which resulted in the death of two people in the suburb of Lidcombe in 1938. He is Sydney Baden Powell Shannon, aged 47, a slaughterman at the Homebush abattoirs. At the Burwood Court he was charged with the murder of Alfred Ernest Smith, aged 51, a union organiser, and his wife, Mary Ann Smith. A remand was granted and bail refused. The police said that the explosion in which the Smiths . f died, occurred early in the morning of January 28, 1938. It rocked houses hundreds of yards away, and shattered the front bedroom in which were Smith and his wife, both of whom died ininstantly. The police theory is that. Smith had the bomb ’n his hands, meaning to hurl it from ihe room, when it exploded. The three children of the dead couple were in the next room, but were unharmed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 6
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