MURDERED HIS DAUGHTER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 9 July 1925, Page 9

MURDERED HIS DAUGHTER.

JURY ATTENDS PICTURE SHOW

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received July 9. 1.10 p.m. BRISBANE, July 9. Oliver Johnson Duck was found guilty of the murder of his daughter Olive. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. On Tuesday night the jury in the Duck murder trial, foreseeing that it would be locked up all night, asked to be allowed to break the monotony by attending a picture show. By permission of the judge, and at the expense of the Crown, twelve jurors, escorted by police, occupied seats in the dress circle and witnessed a wild west production, in which most of the characters, except the hero and heroine, were slain or wounded. In the course of Duck’s trial, the police produced a confession made to them by Duck, giving pathetic details of how his daughter pleaded with him not to shoot her. AYhen he pointed the revolver at her she screamed, and refusing to be quiet, he fired and shot her dead. The n he strapped the body to his saddle and rode thirty-six miles through the night and buried his daughter at dawn.