SIMPSON TRIAL.
AGAIN FOUND GUILTY
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ■ ■ ■ SYDNEY, Sept. 1. ' William Simpson has been found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder at Appin of Constable Flynn and Quy Clift, a car driver. He was previously sentenced to death, but, on appealing, a new trial was ordered. Simpson, in a statement from the dock, claimed that Clift and Constable Flynn were his best friends and that their deaths were accidental. They received fatal wounds, he said, in trying to prevent him from committing suicide, which, he intended.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 September 1924, Page 5
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