"GANGSTER" CRIME
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
SHOOTING AT SYDNEY EX-PRISONER KILLED
Sydney, Nov. 19. A daylight gangster shooting affray occurred in Castlereagh Street, in the centre of the city in the vicinity of a large department store yesterday afternoon ln the presence of crowds of people. Clarence Thomas, aged 36, was shot dead. and the arrest of another man holding a smoking revolver quickly followed. Thomas was recently before the court on a charge of consorting with criminals after his release from Long Bay gaol. His case was taken up by the Rev. Abel Morris, Methodist prison chaplain, who assailed the police for allegedly persecuting released prisoners. Mr. Morris went to the length of inviting Thomas to tell his story from the pulpit. Thomas' assailant was standing menacingly over him when a constable on traffic duty who heard the revolver shot and the screams of fleeing women swooped down on the alleged culprit, who made no attempt to escape.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1937, Page 7
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