GAMEKEEPER’S DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 2

GAMEKEEPER’S DEATH

TRIAL OF ACCUSED VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER. Press Association—By Telegraph— I Copyright. LONDON, November .11. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter at tho trial of Dix. [ The judge said he did not wish to criticise the finding, but ho was totally unable to agree with it. Sentence was deferred. Dix’s defence was that the undorkeoper with Walker fired first at Dix, who • was hit, and automatically clenched his hand, discharging the gun and killing Walker. Elaborate plans and experimental targets were prepared for the jury, counsel on both sides demonstrating their respective theories, [A cablegram from London on October 11 read as follows:—The third brutal murder in a short period concerns William Walker, gamekeeper of the Earl Temple’s estate at Bristol, who was shot at midnight by poachers. Walker, accompanied by a young gamekeeper, heard shots, and kept watch. The poachers approached, and when face to face Walker challenged them. One man lifted his rifle and fatally shot him in the stomach. The police subsequently arrested Enoch Dix, aged 32, and charged him with the crime.]