YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21729, 11 March 1936, Page 19

YOUTH SENTENCED TO DEATH

5 —♦— c rs NEW SOUTH WALES MURDER ry SYDNEY, Mareh 9.* . fe In the Criminal Court to-day Roy * Malcolm Soutar, 17 years of age, | L- was convicted on.a charge of mur- n ss dering Christopher Bnlger, 25 years 5 15 of age, a grazier, ftear WaggaWagga. v - He was sentenced to death. ]< q Soutar's defence was that he c °* killed Bolger during a fit Of rage \ at an insulting statement Bolger { ft, made about a girl he knew. , £ Soutar was recommended to mercy t if. on the ground of his youth. i The evidence disclosed that Soutar, after shooting Bolger, tied 6 It weights to the feet and cast the * body into an underground -tank. * Later that afternoon he brought t friends to the house in a car and t from under the lid of the same tank I he obtained butter and other food- t stuffs which he served to his guests. [Bolger's body was found in a tank , With the hands tied above the head, ir which was covered by a bag. What ,«! appeared to be a bullet wound was ;*; found in the skull. The police .found '/ bloodstains on the verandah of Bolger's « il- homestead. Finally they dragged the J ts, Well and brought the body to the sur-18 faceJ _ g sy _ _* - .. j