ALLEGED MURDER

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20097, 28 November 1930, Page 13

ALLEGED MURDER

RICHARD BUCKLEY ON TRIAL. EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE. f s VXITKJ> PRESS ASSOCIATION- —BY ELECTRIC TELBORAPB—COPYRIGHT.) (Received November 27th. 10.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE, November 27. Richard Buckley, who is charged with murder, gave evidence in his own defence to-day. He denied being associated with Angus Murray in the Berriman crime. He said that he was ill in bed at the time of the murder, suffering from n growth on the neok. which caused him to grow a beard. He had been wrongly convicted of assault and robbery many years ago. Three whippings had been ordered. He had ceived one instalment, when he was released upon the discovery that it was a case of mistaken identity. Since then the iron had entered his soul. This drove him into concealment in order to avoid being crucified a second time. The Crown Prosecutor showed Buckley a photograph of himself clean shaven, and asked him if he could identify himself. Buckley admitted that it was a fairly good picture. The Prosecutor: Why did you not tell the police where vou were when the murder occurred Y Buckley: Why should I. There is a time and place for that. Anyhow, I do not trust any detective. The Prosecutor; Why did you keep three loaded revolvers in your house? Buckley: For the protection of my granddaughter The Prosecutor: You surely do not think the police would injure her? Buckley: They might have started firing at random and hit her. Some of Buckley's relatives gave evidence that Buckley was a sick man at the time of the murder. The trial has concluded. [Richard Bucklev. aged 67, a bootmaker. is being tried on a charge ot the murder of Thomas Berriman, the bank manager, who was shot dead on October Bth, 1923 Angus Murray was hanged in 1924 for his> part in this crime. The polige arrested Buckley on September 30th last, under t< nsational circumstances.]

MURDER OF HIS DAUGHTER SCHUBERT SENTENCED TO DEATH. (Received November 28th, 12.17 a.m.) SYDNEY, November 27. The trial lias concluded of William Schubert, aged 50, a labourer, on a charge of murdering his daughter, May Doris Schubert, aged 14, near Newcastle on December 10th last. Schubert, whose defence was that the girl had poisoned herself owing to her condition, was convicted and sentenced to death. YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH. MELBOURNE, November 27. Herbert Donovan, aged 18, was found guilty of the murder of Mrs Elizabeth Little, and sentenced to death. The jury put in a recommendation for inercy, on account of prisoner's youth. [The body of Mrs Little, a widow, who was farming near Stratford, in Gippsland, was found outside a cowshed on October 15th. Her hands and feet were tied with rope, and she had a gash in her head.]