SYDNEY RAZOR GANGSTER SENT TO GAOL
PRINCIPAL GROWN WITNESS PROTECTEE ■<r.v THREATENED to blow up HOUSE. ’ er -": ’ ' ’ ,—“ . ■ - ESCORTED TO AND FROM WORK , SYDNEY, This Day'. Williani Smiley (26) was sentenced to five years penal servitude fbi causily bodily harm to two men. Hie prisoner who is a razor gangster, 19 described as a dangerous criminal. It woe also stated that the, gang endeavoured to prevent the principal Crown witness appearing and threatened to blow up the house where h« resided, uece.ssitat.ing police pro-, f tetion for the house, whih. had already been damaged by a party of intruder* while witness was away at the ■ preliminary court proceedings. haa now removed with his family ' to an undisclosed address. Meantime thiji .witness has hpd sped.al plain ‘clothes protectors while proceeding to and from work. .us ra liah ■ ■
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 17 November 1928, Page 5
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