MURDER OF GIRL.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 15

MURDER OF GIRL.

FOUND GUILTY.

-OIOODJO DEATH. ISLINGTON, August 10. C f Horace Frank Li verm ore,. *** ll& 2 on a char S e 01 ' mar ' **?*« Margaret Forster, aged four ***,«! * »*tf> at U PP er Hult} l " n •ffjjtk, *as concluded in the Su-to-day. _j f ot the prisoner, addressing • *sff ,aid that if the boy actually *?gi girl, as he said be did, there **L eireomstanco that appeared to ■ *« rerj peculiar. It was that when rfibodv was found at JO o'clock i *2t it tfafl still warm. On the ■ that prisoner actually killed Ifdkfther there could be any doubt jfJJW, wo ° believed the child f o iMgi off dead, and discussed the the child's parents, was in every sense of the word. ggtn Froeecutor's Address. n« C»ini Prosecutor said that if! **s6rt murdered the girl, of which J£»U vo doubt, the question was *L, be was at the time suffering disease of such a kind neither tho quality of 2«t W» whether it was right or 2-Proaeentor reminded the jury person was presumed to bo ** grtß the contrary was proved. {jT—Uwason lb* defence to satisfy ifjßt that Livermore was suffering La seat*! disease. The Crown qnotei extensively from a of Sir Robert Stout, and aeJSjithe jury with the legal definiJMtnity. The medical witfar the defence had said that tiMßiit wis Buffering from dementia ggf ar Bchisophrciua, which meant j Ljbtvlf insan't.v or premature in- j !2t. The medical witnesses for the j severer, said that the boy was tfflferiftS ' rom njental disease, but gift actions wer o ,lue ,0 tlie cx& 2a Jtm at fcia temperament, which was to no doubt by heredity, •inn the outcome of adolescent in Agar. There was the strongest pfiu evidence, according to the totsn account of the affair, that he felfesro *' ttre time irhat he was £g,; The facts that he had hidden b\B there a fortnight beforehand, led the girl away, and that,, jtmfsnjered her, he should throw garden the bank pointed only in ono (Batitt, that he had fully known ut &figt vast he was doing. Livermfc|(tiM<punt behaviour when 'to tigtAit the houso and took part in juMdni sot tho behaviour of ono fffrqr. fnm dementia praecox. ft Boost's Summing Up. 5l jbwnr said the defence quite pad* had said the Crown must ttosa the evidence that accused acttfr'w the person who killed tuo tff "|& want on to discuss matters \ubi» tbe duty of the jury when injpjbttjAe qujettura of sanity. The woAt that if the jury fssltapßore guilty of murder and h« committed the act, duty to sentence t S^^T- murder with the flKfifiOß that he was insane, the would have to be proa question B& ih* J^reraor-Seneral-in-Council <ia it vu ffk bejkffe him with the *wn»W>w»ti«w' oti'fiie. jury. The freat Smigmst between tho evidence rf the e*9e|(h,- saidiija Honour, was W flu deeton &r,lks lefenee set up 4it s delsita sntal disease existed, 4ims the dwtoji fxem the Mental *ajtia| atjd that it dia not exist. SrOtva' wdkal witnesses said ac<*M vsj't* youth who had been in a|wt hs4 mueh of a chance. His IBlsrhad died early. His father *H%uI alto, and hi had-been in a jjJP'jffit through.; He did sot seem jjajptod mnieh of a 'chance. They ggflfce trouble with. Livermore was Wie-had s preeoeious form of what JigißßpJd to as isxtability, that had laereased by the fact many things to con-i|#ft-.i| early life. AU that the PM*» consider, said his Honour, IftjgP ß * *** evidence that was SIS defence showed that he WMfojßfeataad the quality of his know that it was -JplpE'fheT decided that he did, j^pg^to'option other than to -e- - guilty. The possible" we» three—not gniltyj JH|U!<fa**J«. {or sot guilty on the *»d guilty. : &^l'^ Kloi *»ooTuiced. at 3.50 p.m., and rewith "a verdict of ESlJlHffi *-'jfewg recommendation Siff'fewew of his youth and qplaisAMaii tdffFwffiee*' had anything to say, I jgßfflS a l f donned tho black cap, .gWpSWd.'the death sentence. which has often during the trial, Liverthe- sentence unmoved. glfjpWSed ud disappeared from wß&f-'^ wensed from further of two years.