MURDERER HANGED AT MELBOURNE
fU.P A.-H.v Electric Telegraph— Copy right! MELBOURNE. 23rd January. Thomas William Johnson, aged 40. a labourer, was hanged to-day for the murder of Robert Gray, aged 73. and Charles Bunney, aged 61. at Dunolly on 6th October. Johnson’s statement at the trial at Ballarat was that he killed Gray with an axe because he was making a noise at their camp and afterwards killed Bunney because he witnessed the murder of Gray.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 7
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