SYDNEY MURDER CHARGE
CORONER’S INSTRUCT! ON FATAL GANG FEUD.
I'aioeu Ureso .Association —By Electric Telegrupt Copyright.) SYDNEY, Jan. 30. Having inquired into the death of Bernard Dalton, who was shot during a gang i'ued outside a Surrey Hills hotel oh November 9, the "coroner committed Francis Green, aged 29, for trial on a charge of murder, but James Devine, who had been subsequently arrested on the same charge, was discharged.
The chief witness against Green was Walter Tomlinson, who was wounded on the same occasion. Green was arrested after the police had carried out a lonely, hazardous trek along the foreshore of Botany Bay over boulders and through dense scrub to a lonely hut.
Dalton, an electrician aged 4d, was shot dead in the fusilade of revolver shots which injured Tomlinson, a wharf labourer aged 29. Edward Bradey, aged 29, received a wound in bis right hand. Neither Bradey nor Tomlinson would give the police any clue to their assailants. They simply stated the dispute arose over the seciond Rugby League test in England.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 21 January 1930, Page 5
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