LIVERPOOL MURDERS
MOXLEY CONVICTED
SENTENCED TO DEATH
SYDNEY, 16th June.
The jury in the Criminal Court today convicted William "Moxley of the murder of Frank Wilkinson and Dorothy fDenzel after a brief retirement, and he was sentenced to death.
An X-ray photograph of Moxley's head was produced in Court. It disclosed a foreign object, which his counsel sought to show was a bullet as the result of a shooting two years ago.
Government medical officers gave evidence that there was no sign of insanity and nothing abnormal about ■Moxley's mental condition during his detention in. gaol. ,"
Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, in sentencing Moxley to death, said. that the: prisoner had been, f onnd gtlilty of one of the foulest crimes in the history,of the State. The jury had come to the only possible conclu'siou.on the evidence. Moxley. received the verdict calmly, but collapsed on leaving the dock.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 7
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