DEATH SENTENCE
DARTFORD HEATH MURDER. ACCUSED DECLARED SANE. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, May 22. According to the police, Albert Marjoram, aged 23, who was charged with murdering Edith Parker by stabbing her at Dartford Heath, was cool and indifferent when he was arrested. He had previously given himself up for the Reading murder, but admitted that his self-accusation that he had attacked his mother, attempted suicide and tried to strangle his brother was a pack of lies.
The medical evidence did not disclose any tendency to insanity, though this was the basis of. the evidence.. A verdict of guilty wa| returned and he was sentenced to death.
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Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 7
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108DEATH SENTENCE Southland Times, Issue 21091, 24 May 1930, Page 7
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