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BOYS' TRAGIC GAME COMIC PAPERS’ INFLUENCE CRITICISM BY CORONER (10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 1 A rune-year-old hoy. Chal’les Clay, has been committed for trial on a charge of murder. The coroner tool-:, this action'after an inon John U iiiiatn Graiiain. afv’ eie.iu years-mid )f» months, who was killed on 'October Ifi when a shot-gun was discharged close to his body. In giving his judgment, the coroner expressed concern at the number of "comics” describing knife-and-gun play which the boys had in their possession these days. One of the exhibits in the case was a boy’s paper showing a man being held up by another man with a Tommy-gun. This was found by the police in the room where the boys were alleged to have been playing gangsters. In a statement to the police, Clay described how he had shot Graham in the manner depicted in the paper.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21552, 3 November 1944, Page 5
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149COMPANION SHOT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21552, 3 November 1944, Page 5
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