YOUTH GAOLED FOR LIFE FOR DOUBLE MURDER
(11 a.m.) SYDNEV, Dec. 15. William Benjamin Harvey-Bugg, aged 17, was sentenced to life Imprisonment after being found guilty of the murder of Mr. J L. W. Barton and his sister, Miss L. L. Barton, at their Wallerawang homestead on September Z 6. When the jury foreman announced the verdict, the accused said: “I don't know why I did it Something just came over me ” In passing sentence Mr. Justice Herron said: "This Is s deplorable crime—in fact It Is too horrible to dwell upon. "These were a Christian man and woman whose only fault was that they were too kind to you, but you showed them no mercy. You belong to a class of juvenile criminal who needs to be told emphatically that murder will be put down with the utmost rigour of the law.
"You have pleaded insanity but all you need is discipline,” The Bartons were found shot dead on their homestead at which the accused bad been employed as a labourer.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 9
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172YOUTH GAOLED FOR LIFE FOR DOUBLE MURDER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 9
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