MURDER OF CONSTABLE
TWO YOUNG MEN CHARGED IN SYDNEY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, February 28. Leslie William Murphy, aged 24, and Stanley Dayment, aged 28, were charged yesterday with having murdered Constable Guise and were remanded. Both were further charged with breaking and entering and were charged separately with being found at night with housebreaking implements in their possession.
A Sydney cablegram received on Monday stated: After a desperate struggle with one or two suspects at Newtown early on - Sunday morning. Constable Lionel George Guise, aged 22, a single man, was shot in the abdomen and died-several hours later in hospital. It is believed that Guise w;> shot with his own revolver and also that the suspect was wounded, probably in the hand. Early this morning (Monday) 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1939, Page 5
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