MURDERERS’ SENTENCED.
BALL TO DIE
MORAN TO RECEIVE 15 YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT.
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT]
(Received May 29, 9.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 29. The Executive lias confirmed the death sentence on Ball, and has commuted the sentence on Moran for the murder of McDonald at West Maitland on December 5 to 15 years’ imprisonment. [Ball, who was sentenced to death for the murder of liis wife at Bingara, entered a defence that his wife was suffering agony owing to illness. He entered the room and saw her struggling on the floor, foaming at the mouth, having taken carbolic. He shot her because he pitied her in liev suffering. He was convinced that she was practically dead when lie shot her. He always loved his wife. They had never quarrelled. He must have been mad to burn the body.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3537, 30 May 1912, Page 5
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