GUNMAN COMMITS SUICIDE
SYDNEY, September 11. A convicted murderer and gunman. Lionel Charles Thomas aged 44. hanged himself in his cell at the Long B’v "aol earlv this morning. Thomas, who was an outstanding flauro in Australian criminal history, was sentenced to death for the murder at Fd»n in southern New South Wa’es. in February of Mrs Mary Phyllis Pa’e. whose hodv was never found, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 7
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