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According to a news item in the June 29, 1940 edition of The Age (Melbourne, Vic.) on the Trove website, Thomas Leslie Dorter died due to "asphyxiation from blood in a passage from the head, which could have been due to a blow to the nose" after an altercation with another man in a club located in Melbourne on Thursday night (June 27, 1940).

According to a news item in the August 4, 1940 edition of the Truth (Melbourne, Vic.) on the Trove website, Thomas Leslie Dorter, better known in boxing circles as "Tommy Cribb," had attacked Charlie Ed. Wootten at the Bookmaker's Club in June. Afterwards, Wootten was charged with manslaughter. But "the other day," the city coroner said that "the circumstances did not warrant a committal for manslaughter, and the police withdrew the charge." Note- There were numerous news items in Australian newspapers about Thomas Leslie Dorter getting in trouble with the law since 1930, including getting sentenced to three years' imprisonment for participating in a holdup with three other men at a home while posing as policemen and getting away with eighty pounds during 1937.