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Mrs Sylvia Mavis Williams, who lived in Grove Street, told the court she knew Clayton, and on the night of the murder she heard a knock on her door and found him on the doorstep. ‘He appeared very upset, too upset to talk,’ she said. ’ He told her he did not know who had chased him. Mrs Williams said he stayed for about half an hour, then borrowed ten shillings from her and left. When Clayton was led into the witness box, handcuffed to a detective, he said he was a salesman who worked for his brother at the city markets.

One skill in which he graduated with honours was the fine art of snitching. In jail he formed special relationships with the prison ‘screws’ by ratting on what other inmates were up to. This didn’t earn him any brownie points among his fellow inmates, but it did earn him a few favours and creature comforts granted by the prison staff. Back in civilian life, Lennie used his developing association with a few of the police to become a fully-fledged stool pigeon. He would fizz on anyone— even people who thought Lennie was a close friend—to ingratiate himself with a growing circle of copper mates.

Fergusson, it became known to this writer, urged the others to let Wainer come to Sydney, believing their lucrative racket would survive any storm the reformist might have whipped up. The others disagreed. A week later Fergusson (by then a superintendent) was found shot dead in the toilets at the CIB, his service revolver by his side. A morgue worker told me that the first autopsy report of Fergusson showed two bullet wounds to his head, shot at a range of ten feet, definitely not an act of suicide.

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