A SHOOTING AFFRAY
POLICE MAKE AN ARREST TREK MADE TO LONELY HUT [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Dec. 3, 11 p.m. .SYDNEY, Dec. 3. Arising out of the murder of Bernard Dalton, the police last 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 man. The former was charged with murdering Dalton and the latter was charged with vagrancy. A further charge was preferred against Green to-day of attempting to murder Walter Tomlinson, who was shot at the same time as Dalton.
It was reported from .Sydney on November 10 last that anothc. violent underworld affray had occurred at Surrey Hills. A fusilade of revolver shots had resulted in Bernard Dalton, aged 45, being shot dead. His companion, Walter Tomlinson, aged 29, a wharf labourer, was shot in the chest and Edward Brady received a bullet wound in the right hand. Neither nor Tomlinson would give the police any clue as to their assailants. They simply stated that a dispute arose over the. second Rugby League test in England.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 288, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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