5/19/2023 0 Comments The Murder Police 2 by Judge HardyAt that time he was working at Rainbow in north-west Victoria as a billiard marker, employed to keep the score of billiard matches and to replenish drinks. Thomas Johnson's first serious encounter with the Victorian criminal justice system was in February 1925. Police identification photographs of Thomas W. On one occasion, when Johnson was about ten years of age, he hit his father with a knife hone and then kicked him. When Johnson was a child (his sister Lucy later recalled), he was prone to "outbursts of violent temper after which he did not remember anything". He was from a family of thirteen children, nine girls and four boys. Johnson was born in Tasmania (possibly Burnie) in March 1898. Johnson was the fourth of eleven people to be hanged at Pentridge Prison after the closure of Melbourne Gaol in 1924. He was convicted and executed at Pentridge Prison in January 1939. Johnson confessed to the brutal killings, but at his trial he pleaded not guilty for reason of insanity. He was an itinerant labourer with a record of violence and petty crime. Thomas William Johnson (1898 - 23 January 1939) murdered two residents of a boarding house in the delicensed Windsor Castle Hotel in Dunolly, Victoria, in October 1938. HM Prison Pentridge, Coburg, Victoria, Australia
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