WESTPORT MURDER CASE.
CONCLUSION OF TRIAL 8 THE ACCUSED CONVICTED. [Pnnss Association.] NELSON, July I. The Westport murder trial concluded late to-night, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter against the accused Olaf . Haliuen and Anders Anderson. Both prisoners addressed- the Court, main-: , taming their innocence. They saidthey had not known Bourke, the mup-g dored man, and Connelly, the.princ; pal Crown witness, they only hecanf ,acquaiiited : with since tho trial coif menced. Mr. Justice Chapman sat the accused had been convicted on tjj. ■ corroborated and unshaken te6timof of Connelly of a brutal crime. A* derson, the older of (lie two, was tho '• moro guilty, in that lie stood by and did not attempt to restrain' Halincn, who kicked dece ised after ho was on the ground. The sentence of the Court was that each accused ho kept ' to hard labor for seven years.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2232, 2 July 1908, Page 2
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