SURREY HILLS MURDER CASE
POLICE MAKE SECOND ARREST.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Sydney, Dec. 5.
The police yesterday arrested James Devine on a charge of shooting Bernard Dalton at Surrey Hills on November 9. Devine was recently acquitted of lhe murder of a gunman Gaffney, who was shot during a gang raid at Devine’s home at Maroubra.
A message on December <3 stated the police on Monday night carried out a lonely, hazardous trek along the foreshore of Botany Bay, over boulders and through dense scrub, to a lonely hut, where they arrested Francis Green, aged 29, and another rifan, Green was charged with murdering Dalton and the second man was charged with vagrancy. A further charge was preferred against Green t’o-day of attempting to murder Walter Tomlinson, who was shot at the same time as Dalton.
Dalton, an electrician, aged 45, was shot dead in the fusillade of revolver shots, which also gravely injured Tomlinson, a wharf labourer, aged 29, Edward Bradley, aged 29, received a wound in his right hand. Neither Bradley nor Tomlinson would give the police any clue to their assailants. They simply stated the dispute arose over the second Rugby League test in England. . > ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1929, Page 14
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