Left £2,000 In Rabaul
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IT appears that a baker named Lionel Charles Thomas, aged 44, who last year was sentenced in Sydney to life imprisonment for the murder of a woman, was a resi dent of New Guinea for a time.
Thomas hanged himself in a Sydney gaol in August, and it then was dis closed that he had £2,000 in the Commonwealth Bank in Rabaul. de posited in the name of Arthur Graham, one of the aliases which he used. Thomas was a notorious criminal with a long list of serious convictions. There is now a move afoot to give the £2,000 in Rabaul to the children of the woman whom he murdered.