SENTENCED TO DEATH
SHOOTING OF MESSENGER [BY CABLE —PRESS aBSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Recd. February 19, T P?m.) MELBOURNE, February 19. William John Cody, 24 labourer, and Rupert Davies, 28, storeman, were found guilty of the murder Janies Edward Scriver, on January ~l, 1936, and both were sentenced to death. Scriver a Titles Office messenger, was fatally shot while acting as an escort to a clerk carrying a cashbag containing £1758. , Women screamed and men muttered disapproval, when the foreman announced the verdict.. Both the convicted men protested their innocence, and said that they had not had a fair trial. , The Judge said that every point .in their favour haerbeen carefully' placed before the jury.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 February 1937, Page 7
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