GANGSTER MURDER
DAYLIGHT SHOOTING
ARREST IN SYDNEY STREET
NO RESISTANCE ,
Tress Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.)
SYDNEY, November 18.
A daylight gangster shooting affray occurred in Castlereagh Street, in the centre of the city, near the large department stores, this afternoon.
In the presence of crowds of people Clarence Thomas, 36, was shot dead.
This was quickly followed by the arrest of a man holding a smoking revolver. Thomas was ' recently before the Court on a charge of consorting with criminals. After his release from Long Bay gaol his case was taken up by the Rev. Albe Morris, Methodist gaol chaplain, who assailed the police for allegedly persecuting released prisoners. Mr. Morris went to the length of inviting Thomas to tell his. story from the nplpit, and it was given wide publicity. Thomas's assailant today was standing menacingly over him when a constable on traffic duty, who heard the revolver shot and the screams of fleeing women, swooped down on the alleged culprit, who made no attempt to escape.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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