LEFROY .SENTENCED.
The trial of Arthur Lefroy at Maidstone for the murder of Mr Gold came to a close to-day. The court-room was densely crowded. A remarkable number of women were present. Lefroy was pale and dejected. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge’s summing up for the prosecution, which lasted between three and four hours, was strongly against the prisoner, and tended to throw a discredit on the point on which the defence relied that Lefroy had not pawned the pistol and showed entire disbelief in the prisoner’s assertion that a third person was present in the railway car at the time of the murder. The jury only consulted for ten minutes. The prisoner was then found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. Aft er sentenced had been passed, Lefroy protested his innocence.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1025, 19 January 1882, Page 4
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131LEFROY .SENTENCED. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1025, 19 January 1882, Page 4
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