BOMB OUTRAGE
DEATH OF MAN AND WIFE IN N.S.W. EVIDENCE OF CONFESSION BY PATIENT. SYDNEY. April 19. An inquest was opened today into the bomb outrage at Lidcombe on January 28, when Alfred Smith and his wife were killed. The chief testimony was given by a psychiatrist, Dr J. McGeorge. who in evidence said that at the request of the police he kept a patient named Sidney Shannon under observation at the reception house, during which time he heard Shannon declare: "I killed Smith. I threw a bomb under the bed. I’m mad. I did the Lidcombe bombing.” The doctor added that at other times Shannon talked incoherently. However, when nobody in authority was present Shannon appeared quite sane and his mental symptoms appeared simulated. The inquest was adjourned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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129BOMB OUTRAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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