SECOND MURDER CHARGE
SYDNEY POLICE ARREST DEVINE AGAIN
UNDERWORLD AFFRAY Reed. 11 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. The . police yesterday arrested James Devine on ci charge of shooting Bernard Dalton. Devine was recently acquitted of the murder of “Gunman” Gaffney, who was shot during a gang raid at Devine’s home at Maroubra. 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, which was played in England on November 9.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 838, 5 December 1929, Page 9
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