THE KATOOMBA MURDER
SISNTENCE OF DEATH. (Rec. June in, 10.H0 p.m.) - Sydney, June 13. Keith Shaw has been sentenced to death for the Katoouiba murder. The jury strongly, recommended Shaw to mercy owing to his mental faculties being below normal. His brother Lionel was acquitted.—Press Assii. I'l.'win brothers, 'Keith and Lionel Slriw, were charged with tho murder of Sir. (icorge King, a commercial traveller, at Katoomba. Keith made a remarkable confession. He admitted that ho became possessed of an overwhelming desire, to obtain - King's diamond ring. He described his entering King's room with absolute pleasure, dealing his victim seven or eight blows with a hammer. Ho had no more eonsieenco than when serving tennis balls. He secured the ring, which ho buried near the front, gate, then went to bed and slept. When arrested Keith said that he felt like a person in two parts, one part quite serious, the other as if at a picture show. He did not seem a bit. put out over, his arrest and committal.]
(The cable news in this issue accredited to the London "Times" has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of "Tho Times.")
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3115, 20 June 1917, Page 5
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200THE KATOOMBA MURDER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3115, 20 June 1917, Page 5
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