ARREST IN LONELY HUT
SYDNEY POLICEMEN MAKE HAZARDOUS TREK • CHARGE OF MURDER V nited P.A. — By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, Tuesday. 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 agaiust Green today of attempting to murder Walter Tomlinson, who was shot at the same time as Dalton. There was a violent underworld affray at Surry 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 iu 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, which was played in England on November 9.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 837, 4 December 1929, Page 9
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