The Boy Murderer

Hastings Standard, Volume IX, Issue 5149, 16 March 1906, Page 3

The Boy Murderer

|l*et United Press Asiu.—Copyright). Received March 15. 11.10 p.m Sydney. March !•> Quinlau was sentenced to death, with a recommendation to inercy on the ground of his youth. Dr Palmer stated that the wounds were inflicted by one in a frenzied condition, rather than by one who desired to kill. yninlan gave evidence in an extraordinarily calm manner, and told how he had committed the mraier, without being in the least distressed. He said he had to pay for his brother's keep and clothe himself. He also paid small instal-

ments of his earning to a moneylender from whom his mother had borrowed money. He stabbed Mrs Gregory as she rushed at him. lie retreated all the time. When he first went to her room, nothing was farther from his mind thuu using the knife which was in lii& pocket. The Government pathologist said that the boy "was decidedly abnormal. He had had him under observation in gaol. He did not appear to have any emotion of resret or tear.

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