WESTPORT MURDER TRIAL.
BY TELEGRAPH —FBEBH ASSOCIATION. NELSON. July 1. The Westport murder trial concluded late to-night, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter against the accused, Olif Halinen and Anders Andersen.
Both prisoners addressed the Court, maintaining their innocence. They had not known Bourke, the murdered man, they' said, and Connelly, the principal Crown witness, they only became acquainted with since the tral commenced.
Mr Justice Chapman said that the accused had been convicted on the corroborated and unshaken testimony of Connelly of a brutal crime. Andersen, the older of the two, was the more guilty, in that he s'ood by and did not attempt to restrain Halinen, who kicked the deceased after ha was on the ground. The senterce of the Court was that each accused be kept to hard labour for seven years.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9131, 2 July 1908, Page 5
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139WESTPORT MURDER TRIAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9131, 2 July 1908, Page 5
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