Sydney Gangster Gets Sentence of Ten Years
WOUNDED CONSTABLE. Received Monday, 8.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 23. At the criminal sessions, Charles Thompson, aged 29. a labourer, was sentenced to ton years’ imprisonment on a charge of shooting at Constable Jackson with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The evidence revealed that Thompson became involved in an underworld affray at Woolooraooloo and fired point blank at Constable Jackson, who returned the fire and brought Thompson down with a wound in the shoulder.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1929, Page 2
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