Underworld Leader Murdered in Sydney
Received Saturday, 12.30 a.m. SYDNEY, Nov. 1. A week ago Henry Slater, a former loader of Sydney’s underworld, was shot dead when about to join a tram at Yarra Bay. The affair was witnessed by r a youth who declares the murderer decamped on a bicycle. The scene of the murder, about eight miles south of the city in the vicinity of Botany Bay, chiefly scrubland, was to-day 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.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 270, 2 November 1940, Page 7
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