N. TERRITORY DRAMA
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED.
[BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.]
DARWIN, November 7.
Ernest Moray Baker was convicted, and was sentenced to death here, for the murder of Palmer Brushe, engineer of the Alexandria Station, in the Northern Territory. The jury added a strong recommendation to mercy on various grounds. ■ Baker, who is the part-owner of the Binmarch Station, on the Barkley Tableland, is the first white man to be sentenced to death for murdering a white man in the Northern Territory. Baker desired to marry a. half-caste girl, who, however, was in love with another man, named Cottis, but the latter was not prepared to marry her. Baker went to Cottis’s hut. and he fired several shots through the door. Cottis had previously escaped, but Brushe, who was inside, was inadvertently shot dead. Thereupon Baker surrendered to the police.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1933, Page 7
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