AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19513, 23 June 1925, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

THE CARLTON TRAGEDY

O'SHEA ACQUITTED

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

MELBOURNE, Juno 22. John Maxwell O'Shea was found not guilty.

As the result of a disturbance outside the United States Hotel at Carlton on May 18, John Henry Dodds, aged 42, died from. a. bullet wound in the head. Jack Maxwell O’Shea, the licensee, was arrested on a charge of murder. According to a statement by O'Shea, lie and another man hoard the sounds of men attempting to bleak the hack gate on his premises. r lhey suw one niviu ciirnbinc over the gate and others assisting him. O’Shea then, fired a shot from a revolver intending to frighten them, but the man on the <pite fell oif. The men scattered when the police arrived, and escaped.

MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT. SYDNEY, June 22,

In view of his appointment to the Legislative Council, Mr A. C. Willis has resigned the secretaryship of the Coal Miners’ Federation.

LEGISLATOR’S DEATH. SYDNEY, June 22. The death is announced of Mr E. J. Birt, Labour member for Sydney in tlie Legislative Assembly.

CRONULLA HOTEL TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, Juno 22. (Received June 22, at 11 p.m.) The Greek, Papparays, was found not guilty and discharged.

Petty bickerings between two foreign employees at the Cronulia Hotel, increasing in bitterness day by day, came to a climax on April 14 last, when Samuel Abraham Papparays, a Greek, fatally stabbed Jules Regnaud, a. Frenchman, in the groin, severing an artery.