MURDERED BY GANG
TEN MEN ON TRIAL. .Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, July 28. Arising from the murder of Plum'mer by a gang in April last, ten men are being, tried for murder at the Leedo Assizes. The doors are guarded, the police fearing disturbances by friends of the prisoners. It is expected that one hundred witnesses will be called. The Crown’s evidence shows that Plummer was warned that the gang were coining, but he said: “I shall have to stick it.” When attacked by six, Plummer cried out: “I will take you one by one.” Fowler, one of the accused, retorted: “You done our kid! We’re going to do you!” Plummer knocked Fowler down. The gang then battered Plummer, using rubber truncheons and other weapons. The prosecution pointed out that the jury had a difficult task in deciding whose hand dealt the fatal bayonet blow in the stomach.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1925, Page 3
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