MURDER CASE AT NEW PLYMOUTH.
New Plymouth, November 7. The Supreme Court was occupied the whole "f to day on the trial of Antonio Schuell, charged with having murdered Matthew Knolla at Stratford. Mr. Govett appeared as amicus curios for the prisoner, who, when called upin to plead, said, “ I have murdered him.but it was the fault of a dream.” This was taken as a plea of “ Not guilty," and the trial then proceeded with. The medical evidence of Dr. Boor, of Nelson, was to the effect that the man was of sound mind during the time he was in Nelson Asylum. The jury retired at 5 o'clock to consider their verdict . Lster. In the murder case the, jury returned to Court at 7 o’clock with a verdict of guilty. The Judge, in passing sentence of death, said he agreed with the verdict in point of law, but in his own ,mind he had doubts about the prisoner’s sanity,at the time the prisoner did. the,deed, and he,should represent those doubts in the proper quarter.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1072, 10 November 1882, Page 3
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