N.S.W. MURDER
POLICE SEARCH FOR WEAPON. MADE IN SNAKE-INFESTED COUNTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, November 1. A week ago Henry Slater, former leader of Sydney’s underworld, was shot dead when about to join a tram at Yarra Bay. The affair was witnessed by a youth who declares that the murderer decamped on a bicycle. The scene of the murder, about eight miles south of the city in the vicinity of Botany Bay and chiefly scrubland, was today combed by 50 police, whose search for the weapon was entirely fruitless, but the expedition encountered no fewer that 30 venomous snakes of varying lengths and colours. All were killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 4
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