CLAPHAM COMMON MURDER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10191, 17 March 1911, Page 5

CLAPHAM COMMON MURDER.

MORRISON FOUND GUILTY.

(Received March 16, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, March 15.. The Trial of Steincr (or Stinie) Morrison, charged with the murder, early on New Year's Day on Clapham Common, of a French »lew named Leon Beron, has concluded. Accused was found guilty and sentenced to death.

Giving evidence regarding the-theory that the motive of the crime was political revenge, Inspector Wensley testified that the murdered, man had not given information to the police.

SNAPSHOTTING OF PRISONERS

CONDEMNED BY THE JUDGE

(Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.)

LONDON, March 16. Constable Greaves, under cross-ex-amination, admitted that he had been twice suspended, firstly for complaining of his sergeant and secondly; for making a supposed untrue statement to a; superintendent, and he w>s thereafter transferred to another division. Mr Justice Darling, in summing up, endorsed the -jury's protests ■ -against the indiscriminate snapshotting, of those engaged in the trial. It '■ was far graver when people were permitted to photograph the prisoners not yet identified by those \ having testified against them. Such photographs may be seen by possibly uncertain inducing them to swear as to the ; identification, which otherwise they I would be unable to co. Morrison was thus photographed when merely remanded on suspicion. The practice was obviously injurious to the prosecution, and calculated to frustrate the whole ends of justice. : The jury were absent for thirty-five minutes. , y Mr Winston Churchill, in reply to a question, said that the question of snapshotting'at trials was under consideration.