THE WINDSOR MURDER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4103, 4 May 1892, Page 2

THE WINDSOR MURDER.

Williams Found Guilty.

Sentence of Death.

Melbouhne, May 2, At 9 p.m. the jury returned a ver» diot of Wilful Murder against Deem--tog, finding that ho was not insane at the time of the murder, nor is he insane now, Sentence of death was passed. Dr Springthorpe, who was examined at great length, related a conversation he had with the prisoner, in which the latter told extraqrdinary "lea, and made shocking and brutal charges against his family. A portion of the aooused's statement to the doctor was so shook ing that it was not read in Court, Williams accused Miss Matherof being an accomplice in the Rainhill crime before the fact, and also declared that she was previously married to a man named Hughes, and that she met Hughes on landing in Melbourne, and subsequently cleared out with him.'

Melbourne, May 8. During yesterday's sitting of the Court, Williams looked less haggard and pre brisk and business-like than he djd during the earlier stages' qf the trial,

Mr Deakin's address to the jury on behalf of the Jury was an able and exhaustive onp, lasting two hours and a half.

Mr Walsh, Crown Prosocutor, rldi« ouled the idea of insanity under tho circumstances, saying that the murder .was deliberately planned, denoting a series of pre-arranged events. Despite his counsel's advice, Williams persisted in making a statement containing his version of the tragedy. This statement was a palpable mixture of mendacity, audacity, and'impu(|once, and an extraordinary propensity for"" "qiitraging the truth was manifested therein, Immediately lie protested' that he had nqt received ) fair tjjjl, public feeling svsnt against him, Williams spokf clearly ana without £he slightest trace of emotion.

In his summing up the judge wp remarkably fair in hjs treatment pf ihe evidence,

The jury were absent an hour, and the verdict oaured the prisoner to smile. Af or sentence hid been pronounced be walked boldly from the Court, ,