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SYDNEY INQUEST. LOTTERY OFFICIAL. N Body Found In Sydney Harbour. OPENS ON JUNE 17. I Press Association—Convright. (Received 11.30 a.in.) Sydney, To day. About 30 witnesses will be cubed at the inriuest on June 17 on Alexander Collins 53, the lottery oincial hose body was found in the barbear recently. Dot. Sergeants Lrwrcnee Harwood) end Mackio (North Sydney) av* securing statements from Die witnesses, who will include a r-.rnio • -'fiiclal of the Lottery Department. Collins owned two houses —one at Tlalnicral and or.o at Burwood- and ’s known lo have hrd a hank account o; nearly £ 1 000. IPs will, it is helevel, contained only the necessary ■Unctions for tho di::gosr 1 of h’s -.Toner: y. An envelope found in the Lottery Office was addressed to a sister of Or-llinf., It contained throe £3 notes, but no message. I Aloe; 20 police probationers today ! r-omchod the scrub in the vimn.tv of i Taylor Bay, who e the bony was found, for the second revev- r missing from the Lottery office ; ,rd for the -attache case which ’'Jo’liis had cmriecl. It is expected that Mm contents of the hag may Rirv 7 some light on the mystery. A search of Collins’ Burwood home yesu relay revealed another m reiver, now in police possession, ami so mo letters which had no beu.iu* on tha tragedy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 156, 13 June 1936, Page 5
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