CAMPBELL MOIR.
SENTENCED TO DEATH. . A MENTAL WEAKLING. THE GLEBE TRAGEDY. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. January 30, 0.35 p.m.) Sydney, January 30. At the trial of Jloir on the chargo of murder, tho medical evidence was to tho effect that prisoner was a mental weakling. Counsel for the defence argued that such a weakliDg was unable to conceive the clever circumstances surrounding tho tragedy, and declared that Trovascus was a "fence" who got Jloir into his clutches and used him for his own evil purposes. Moir was afraid that the nature of his dealings with Trevascus would bo discovered, an 3 went to Melbourne under an assumed name. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and added a strong recommendation for mercy on the grounds of his extremo youth and the probability that tho deceased exercised a strong evil influence over prisoner's mind. Moir, in reply to the usual question, proclaimed his innbeencc. Sentence of death was passed.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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157CAMPBELL MOIR. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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