DIX SENTENCED
FIFTEEN YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 12. Dix was sentenced to 15 years’ penal servitude. The judge referred to the various degrees of manslaughter, and added that ho desired by tho sentence to protect others in tho same position as tho murdered man. [On October 11 William Walker, gamekeeper of the Earl Temple’s estate at Bristol, was shot at midnight b.y poachers. Walker, accompanied by a younger gamekeeper, heard shots, and kept watch. The poachers approached, and when face to face Walker challenged them. Ono man lifted his rifle and fatally shot him in the stomach. Tho police subsequently arrested Enoch Dix, aged 32, and charged him with tho crime. At the trial the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, the judge remarking that he was totally unable to agree with it.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 2
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136DIX SENTENCED Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 2
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