MURDER CONVICTION.
; . ON AN APE'S EVIDENCE. BEST OP CASE CntOTMSTANHAX. ByTolegraDlt-Press'AssociaUon-Oonyrieht.
New :.York, January 24. Mr. Aierman, the owner of' a Menagerie at Devall's. Landing,;.in Louisiana, was murdered whilo. feeding an ape, which' afterwards flew into a terrible rage., whenever.it saw Starr;, an employee at tho menagerie,.i and .his wife/ > ■ J
The Starrs were- charged ' with the crime, : and on conviction, were' sentenced to imprisonment, for life. It' : is understood , that, the apo's ,rage :on : seeing, the prisoners . in' court: influenced' 1 the. ■ jury more, than;' which was purely circumstantial. ' ' - ' : '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100126.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
90MURDER CONVICTION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in