WIRELESS HELPS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1924, Page 13

WIRELESS HELPS.

POLICE SUCCESS. BRIDEGROOM ARRESTED. CHARGE OF MURDER. . v ■ '• '• ' r Sydney, Sept. lv. Wireless is only being tested fCT police use, but the pro vis-ion of a set on the police night patrol car last Sunday morning was directly responsible for swift action, and the arrest, on % charge of murder, of a bridegroom of a few hours. Robert Walker. 42, a married man, of Taylor Street, Annandale, was killed, and Alfred Mitchell, 29, and Frank Smith, 24, both of Annandale, were severely injured as the result of a. motor accident on Parramatta Road, late on Saturday night. The car which knocked down the three men disappeared a few seconds after the smash, and a pedestrian who heard the noise camion the scene to find the three men lying on the roadway. Walker’s neck and both leg® were broken —he had been thrown 100 feet by the impact, while both the others had fractured skulls.

The alarm was given to Police Head quarters and the wireless message sent out. It reached the patrol at Alexandria, and within five minutes the police were on the spot,

Three cars had been seen in the vicinity about the time of the accident, and it was only a matter of a few minutes before two of them had bee? cleared of any participation in the affair. Further wireless messages were sent and received, and then the patrol visited Westbourne Street, Petersham, where the owner of a motor car was interviewed. He denied all knowledge of the matter the police were handling, though he admitted that he was near the spot at the time. He said he had been married at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, and went for a spin with his wife and two other men. They met with aJJ accident but did not run down any pedestrians. The police sergeant was not satisfied, and examined the car, which suoweu ui.mistakable signs of an accident, both headlights being damaged and the mudguard bent. Close scrutiny showed traces of 'bkxxi, ana eventually one ot the younger inenyiers of the party is alleged to have eojiiessed that they did run down the three men, nnd that, after the accident, all traces of the blood, they thought, were washed away, and the other story concocted. The bridegroom ot a few hours was arrested, and charged with having feloniously slain Walker.