SENTENCED TO DEATH
A YOUTHFUL HOMICIDE. (Received Last Night, 9.35 o'clock.) SYDNEY, -January 30. At the trial of Moir, the youth indicted for the murder of Trevascus, the | medical evidence showed that the prisoner, was a mental weakling. Counsel for the defence argued that such a weakling was unable to conceive the clever circumstances surrounding the tragedy. He declared that Trevascus was a fence. He got Moir into his clutches and used him for his own evil purposes. Moir, being afraid .that the- nature of his dealings ( witlrTrevascus would become knoiyn,.i went tp Melbourne under an assumed y name"; ,"•'-'' '--'■'.•'.;■' ""■ " ■ '.'".' ' -''.-" .)
; !.\vn|bh:a. strpng recommendajtion to mercy on the 'grpunds'of. his extreme ybutlju.and the probability that deceased exercised a strong evil influence on the prisoner's mind.
Moir, in reply to the usual question, proclaimed Ms innocence. Sentence of death was passed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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138SENTENCED TO DEATH Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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