AUSTRALIAN NEWS
A MURDER AT FITZROY. LABOURER SHOT DOWN, MELBOURNE, September 22. (Received Sept. 22, at 11 p.m.) A murder of the American gangster type occurred at Fitzroy t when James John, aged 25, a labourer, was shot five times in the stomach and chest by a man who stepped out of a car and afterwards drove away with a companion. John, who died on the pavement, was in the company of a boxer named Chrisfield when the car drew up. Bullets were deliberately rained at John, but Chrisfield was not harmed. He declares that the murderer is not known to him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 11
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