THE AMDERLEY MURDER.

Evening Star, Issue 10342, 16 June 1897, Page 2

THE AMDERLEY MURDER.

GHRIBTOHUBCH, Jras 16. The ad joarned erbniiai WMobm of the - Supreme Opart resumed thi> ? |ia||tf iig to 'bike the cue in ooMusorion jsjtth the Amberley murder. A large, nnjnbjr of people assembled an hour bafts* *h*coort opened, and every available aflat waa occupied. The prisoner, William Sheehan, Lwa* charged with the wilful W*&* of Agnes Lawcock, and pleaded JMt guilty. Mr T. W. Stringer conducted the ease for the Crown, and Mr Joynt tfae prisoner. .. . ■--;." ?c; Mr Stringer, in addressing tlie jary,«t*ted the nature of the evidence which-jie intended to call and the facts euuusnUay the aooused with the oAWoe, which vera lolly telegraphed at the time of the murdec,, The evidence up to the luncheon adjonrnment dealt with the finding of the body of the deceased and the identification of the prisoner as the man who was seen jn the vieinity. About the time the murder is supposed to have been committed the prisoner had called at several bouses in the neighborhood asking for sugar, and had also made inquiries from people he met a* to the road to Waikari.