CONSTABLE KILLED
DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH SUSPECT. TWO YOUNG MEN ARRESTED SYDNEY, Feb. 27. After a desperate struggle with one of two suspects in Newtown Constable Lionel George Guise, aged 22, a single man, was shot in the abdomen. He died several hours later in hospital. It is believed Guise was shot with his own revolver and also that the suspect is wounded, probably in the hand.
A strict watch was kept on the hospitals. Later 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 the hand.
CHARGED WITH MURDER
Received Feb. 27, 11.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 27. Leslie William Murphy, aged 24, and Stanley Dayment, 28, were charged to-day 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 house-breaking implements in their possession.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 49, 28 February 1939, Page 7
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158CONSTABLE KILLED Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 49, 28 February 1939, Page 7
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