MURDER IN SYDNEY
UNDERWORLD VENDETTA BIG INFLUX OF CRIMINALS SYDNEY, June 23. A number of fights which are the outcome of a feud lasting for the past four months, in which a number of people have been badly slashed with razors, and have refused to give information to the poUce or identify -their assailants, culminated in the early hours of this morning in the murder of Norman Britain, who was shot five times in a slum area near Parlinghurst, and died in hospital without giving the police any information which would lead to the arrest of his murderer jr murderers. Although he was fully conscious when taken to hospital, Bruhm refused to make any statement, and the police are greatly hampered in their investigations. It is known, however, that there has lately been a big influx of Melbourne criminals to Sydney, and that they havo been in tfie habit of holding up Irug traffickers and demanding money pud slashing drug vendors with razors it money is refused. The latter to protect themselves carry revolvers and the present murder is believed to be the outcome of this underworld •vendetta.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 24 June 1927, Page 7
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