LABOURER HANGED
MURDER OF TWO MEN IN VICTORIA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE, January 23. Thomas William Johnson, aged 40, labourer, was hanged today for the murder of Robert Gray, aged 73, and Charles Bunney, aged 61, in Dunolly on October 6. Johnson's statement at the trial in Ballarat was that he killed Gray with an axe because ho was making a noise at their camp and afterwards killed Bunney because he witnessed the murder of Gray. The bodies of the two men were found with their heads battered in a padlocked room in a delicensed hotel in Dunolly on October 6.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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101LABOURER HANGED Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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