MOAT FARM TRAGEDY.
EXECUTION OF. THE MURDERER
CONFESSES HIS GUILT.
By. Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, July 14. Dougal, the Moat Farm murderer, has been hanged. He confessed his guilt to the chaplain on the scaffold.
The murderer, during the trial, set up a plea of accidental shooting, and sought to account for his concealment of the body by explaining that -he became frightened and. had not considered the seriousness of what he was doing. The plea was utterly, discredited, even by those who arc usually ready to have sympathetic leanings towards those charged with a capital offence. ’
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 943, 16 July 1903, Page 2
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96MOAT FARM TRAGEDY. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 943, 16 July 1903, Page 2
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