SYDNEY’S UNDERWORLD.
FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. AN ARREST EFFECTED. United Press Assn. —Ewe. Tel.—Copyright SYDNEY, Dec. 3. In the course of their inquiries into the murder of Bernard Dalton the police last night carried out a lonely and 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. , Green was charged with murdering Dalton and the other man 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.
There was a violent underworld affray at Surrey Hills on November 10. A fusillade of revolver shots resulted in Bernard Dalton, aged 45, an electrician, being shot dead. His companion, Walter Tomlinson, aged 29, a wharf labourer, was shot in the chest. Edward Brady, aged 29, received a bullet wound in his right hand. Neither Brady nor Tomlinson would give the police any clue to their assailants. They simply said a dispute arose over the second League football test match, whioh was played in England on November 9. _____
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17885, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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190SYDNEY’S UNDERWORLD. Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17885, 4 December 1929, Page 5
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