"FOURTEEN YEARS"
WITHOUT COMMENT
(By Telegraph.—Press .Association.)
DUHEDIN, This Day.
In the Supreme Court, Lewis William O'Connor was found guilty of manslaughter in ■ killing Findlay Douglas Buchanan at Tomahawk on 30th March. He was, sentenced to fourteen years' hard labour. Judge Kennedy inflicted the sentence without comment.
The Crown Prosecutor, in urging the necessity of a severe penalty, said that the man killed was prisoner's friend. Within an hour of killing his friend, prisoner had been hospitably received, but went back and shot him practically in his wife's presence, and in the room where his own child was asleep.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1932, Page 12
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