SYDNEY MURDER CASE
ACQUITTAL ON ONE CHARGE. (Rec. 11.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 15. Arthur Joseph O’Keefe, a waterside worker, was acquitted in, the Central Criminal Court of having- murdered Joseph Roystoh Raton in a Paddington residential on September 1 O’Keefe who pleaded not guilty said he fired a revolver in self-defence when Paton attacked him.
After the acquittal . O’Keefe was charged with having murdered Henry James O’Connor and with wounding James Sullivan and Norman Stanton Bolger, with intent to murder all on September 17. He was remanded for trial.
A message from Sydney on September 18 stated: Two men were shot dead and three others wounded in the suburb of Paddington early this morning. Later two men were shot during an argument outside a picture theatre in the same suburb. The first shooting took place in a block of flats. The police have established that during a mixed drinking party an argument occurred during which one of the guests produced a pistol and fired several shots.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXVI, Issue 15, 15 December 1945, Page 8
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