WOUNDED MAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 24 May 1937, Page 13

WOUNDED MAN

LOST FROM HOSPITAL

FOUND IX ANOTHER

MYSTERIOUS S HOOTING

SYDNEY, May 3. Detectives searched Sydney during the week-end for a man with a bullet wound in a leg, who disappeared mysteriously while undergoing treatment, at the Royal South Sydney Hospital. They found him. late hist night, in a ward of Sydney Hospital. The wounded man, Peter Davis, aged 27, labourer, of Benwick street, Redfern, was one of two men who were shot by an unknown assailant in a Redfern hotel on Saturday. The other man, John Dwyer, 36, labourer, of Albert street, Redfern, was hit by the same bullet, but received only superficial injuries. Detectives called in to investigate the shooting have found it one of the strangest they have ever had to solve. They are confronted with a puzzle, of which most of the pieces still appear to be missing. Police were told that Davis and Dwyer were shot while in the crowded bar of a hotel on Saturday night- by a man who walked info the hotel, fired once, and then walked out again. According to the accounts given, Davis was seated at a fable, playing dominoes, and Dwyer was leaning on the table, with his arms crossed, when the man quietly entered the room. He did not speak, hut appeared to aim deliberately at Davis, who had a narrow escape. The bullet passed through the flesh of the upper part of his right thigh, glanced upwards, passed through Dwyer's right forearm, and then lodged in the uppei part of his left forearm. The man who fired the shot pocketed his weapon, and then turned and calmly left the hotel. Onlookers Reticent These details were elicited by police after considerable difficulty, but they found no one who recognised the assail, ant. Some of those, questioned claimed they had not seen the man and that they would not recognise him again. Others who were present when the shooting occurred denied that they had seen or heard anything unusual. When interviewed in the Royal South Sydney Hospital, both Davis and Dwyer said they could not help the police, and could only give vague details of how they had been shot. Davis was asked to await the arrival of a specialist, because doctors feared that his injury, which was in the thick part of the thigh, might, be more serious than it appeared. A specialist was summoned, but when he arrived the patient had disappeared. Detectives thought that Davis might be able to give, them some further information if they saw him, and commenced an exhaustive search for him. They looked in Redfern and in other districts where he is known before they discovered that he was in hospital. They will interview him to-day.