SYDNEY GANGLAND

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 December 1931, Page 7

SYDNEY GANGLAND

SHOOTINGS, SLASHINGS, AND BASHINGS STIR UNDERW ORLD. PITILESS VENGEFULNESS. SYDNEY, Saturday. The underworld is seething. Recent shootings, slashings and bashings have stirred up hatred, and it is feared that more blood will be spilled. The police expect further attacks at any time for, they say, at least two men and a woman are max-ked. Early last night a woman was slashed outside a Pitt Street hotel. She was still suffering from the effects of four slight slashes received previously. The underworld is ruthless appearently. This woman, Ida •W.elsh, aged 35 years jf Port Hacking, was not seriously enough hurt on the first occasion. It is said that Ida Welsh made a remark about Frank Green which raised the ire of one of his supporters, and a razor flashed. When she was sitting'in a big Pitt Street hotel a few minutes before six o'clock yesterday, a man approached her. "I'll get you yet, you !" he said savagely. On Running Board. 5She left and entered a taxi. The man promptly leaped on to the running board, and, in full view of horriged onlookers, struck again and again with a razor. Five ugly wounds opened on her breasts, and she fell back in a state of collapse. While the woman did her best to stop .the flow of blood, the taxi-driver rushed her to Port Hacking, and Dr. Miller attended to her. Detectives Carroll, Reeves, Grant, and Hall interviewed her at the home of Walter Tomlinson, who was wounded in July, 1929, when G. Gaffney was shot dead at Maroubra, and again, -a few months later, when Barney Dalton was murdered in William Street. But she would not tell the police much, and refused to name her assailant. All a Mistake. The shooting of Nellie Cameron on Monday night was accidental, according to a woman known as one of the "queens" of the underworld. The bullet, she says, was meant for a well known criminal who was passing when Nellie was wounded. Challenge to Police. Another of Green's friends is "on the spot." He received word of it a few days ago, and is prepared. If there is any shooting he can be depended upon to retaliate. At present the underworld is pitted against Detective-Sergeant Kennedy and Detectives T. Wilson, Lawless and Shields, who for months kept Darlinghurst free of major gang crimes.