REVOLVER DUEL.
YOUNG GUNMAN'S DEATH.
TRAGEDY IN SYDNEY
(United Press Association--Copyright) SYDNEY, January 5.
A revolver duel between the police and a man who. was suspected of having shot and critically wounded Constable John Terbutt near the central railway station on New Year's Day took place in a house in the suburb of Waterloo to-day. The suspect, James Penrose, aged 18 x is known to the police as "the boy gunman." Realising that resistance was futile he shot himself dead through the temple.
A police cordon was thrown round the house where Penrose was hiding. He was the leader of a gang of hooligans, and had confided to his associates that he would not be taken alive. When the detectives burst into the house Penrose opened fire, and a detective replied, both shots missing. Then, before there could be any further exchange of shots, Penrose turned his revolver on himself.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 71, 6 January 1936, Page 5
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