FOUND GUILTY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 7

FOUND GUILTY.

MURDER OF HENRY TREVASOUB. MOIR SENTENCED TO DEATH. ' By. Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 30lh January. The trial of the man Campbell Moir, charged with, tho rnurd«r of Henry Treviuscus, mining expert., on 31st October, was concluded to-day. Moir was convicted and sentenced to death. Medical evidence was called to show that the prisoner was a mental weakling, tuid counsel for the'dofence urged that such a weakling would be unable to conceive such a clever set of circumstances as surrounded this tragedy. He declared that Trevascriß was a " fence " (receiver of stolen , goods for disposal) who hatl gov Moir iut(V vis clutches ana used him for his own evil purpoGt*. Moir was afraid the nature of nis dealings with Trevascus would be discovered, to ho went to Melbourne under an assumed name. The jury made a strong recommendation to mercy, on the grounds of the extreme youth of the accused and tho probability that the deceased exercised a ' strong evil influence ovar the pri- ' scmer's mind. . Moir, in reply to the usual question before the passing of sentence, proclaimed his innocence.