THE STRATFORD MURDER.
♦ — (per united press association.) New Plymouth, Nov. 7. The Supreme Court has been occupied the whole day on the trial of Antonio Schnell, charged with.haviug murdered Matthew Knolls, at Stratford. Mr Govett appeared for the prisoner, who, when called upon to plead, said, " I have murdered him, but it was the fault of a dream." This was taken as a plea of " not guilty," and the trial was then proceeded with. The medical evidence of Dr Boer, of Nelson, was to the effect that the man was of sound mind during the time he was in the Nelson Asylum. The jury retired at 5 o'clock to consider their verdict. Later. At the Supreme Court to-day in the case of Antonio Schnell, for murder, the jury returned into Court at 7' o'clock with a verdict of guilty. The Judge, in passing sentence of death, said he agreed with the jury's verdict in point of law, but in his own mind he had doubts about prisoner's sanity at the time he did the deed, and should represent it so in proper quarters.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 8 November 1882, Page 2
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183THE STRATFORD MURDER. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 8 November 1882, Page 2
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