DEATH SENTENCE
ON BUCKLEY. END OF CAREER OF CRIME. (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE, November 28. Richard Buckley, aged 67, bootmaker, on the charge of murder of Thomas Bernina n, a. bank who was shot dead on October Bth, 1923, was to-day found guilty. He was sentenced to death. The jury was only a few minutes deliberating. ..Buckley took the verdict quietly. He reiterated his innocence, and lie said that circumstances were against him. His record discloses him as one of the worst criminals in Australian history. His gaol career began in 1879, and thereafter his (rimes included violence, robbery, maliciously wounding, garroting and robbery under arms. At least two men with whom lie was associated have been hanged. He served sentences aggregating more than twenty years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 5
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