4-MINUTES MURDER TRIAL.
LONDON, November 28. AA it bin four minutes of the cliaroe heing read to him at Manchester Assizes, yesterday, Sam Johnson. 2S a crane-worker of AVellington street. Stockport, was sentenced to death, on his own confession, for murdering Beatrice Philomena Martin, aged 23. who was found stabbed on the doorstep of her own home at Stretford. ALinchestor, after she had been for a walk with Johnson. The acceptance of a plea of guilty in a murder charge is extremely rare and the trial was one of tiie shortest of its kind on record. AVlien Johnson pleaded guilty the judge asked him.: “ Have yon seriously considered the course you are taking?” Johnson replied that he had and that he did not want anyone to defend him. I
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 4
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1294-MINUTES MURDER TRIAL. Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1926, Page 4
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