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SYDNEY TRAGEDIES

A BLACK SATURDAY,

(Rec. February 22, 5.5 p.m.)

Sydney, February 22. Another shooting tragedy occurred at ■Bronte. Shots were heard in a shelter close to the beach, and a man and wo. man were found dead. Both were fashionably dressed, wearing considcrabls iewellery. There is no clue to their identity.—Press Assn. Later. Yesterday proved a black Saturday in tho way of tragedies. Following tho Bronto affair, in which it is now established Ifarrv Thorton, a wharf labourer, murdered Lilian Kehoo, a married woman, and then committed suicide, came the news of a sensational street fight between seamen, one of whom wounded five others with a jack-knife. Later, Peter Gearv, a returned soldier, was shot dead, and his wife wounded in a houso at Surry Hills. A young married woman was arrested, charged with tho crime. Further, five shots were fired at Bob Turner, formerly champion boxer, in a house at Ultimo. Three took e.ffcct, and Turner was sent to hospital. Ho refused to divulge tho name of the assailant. An unnamed woman was found drowned at Coocce.—Press Assn. '

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8

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SYDNEY TRAGEDIES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8

SYDNEY TRAGEDIES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8

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