SYDNEY CONSTABLE KILLED
EARLY MORNING STRUGGLE TWO YOUNG MEN ARRESTED lU P A.-Bv Electric Telegraph-Copy rich! I (Received 27th February, 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day After a desperate struggle with one of two suspects early this morning. Constable Lionel George Guis*. aged 22. single, was shot in the abdomen and died several hours later in hospital. It is believed Guise was shot with his own revolver, also that the suspect was wounded, probably in the hand. A strict watch was kept on hospitals. Early this morning a large party of police surrounded a house in the suburb of Paddington, and arrested two young men, who submitted quietly. One had a bullet wound in his hand.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 February 1939, Page 8
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