GUNMAN'S LETTER TO WIFE
INQIIEST INTO SIIOOTING OF DETECTIVE Roceived Tucsiluv, 7. 70 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 17. "Ile got in iiiv vvay so 1 1ft liiin have it. Only for my nitl jamming tln1 other fellow would l)i' cailing lor the angels too." This is nn extraet trom one of two ext ruordinnry letJers submitted :it uu inquest lodav on Dtteetivo \. D. Aheani who wa' s1. >t in u police ear on August 11. The jioliee cluiined that tlie lettors were written bv Sidnev (irant to his wife Kdna (irant wlio was in the Women'* Keformat my at I.ong Buy ( Jaol, Sydney. (irant and Keith George Hope have been eharged with the murder of Ahearn. "I eould see them taking me from tou and leaving you there to rot. If anv imig tries to harni you I will fill him so full of lea'd he will sink like a battleship, ' ' read another extract. A detective said (irant had admitted writing the letters bnt elainied he did not m ea u wliat was in them. Tn a statemeiit (irant claimed that the shooting was an aeeident.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 September 1946, Page 5
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185GUNMAN'S LETTER TO WIFE Chronicle (Levin), 18 September 1946, Page 5
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