THE WOODLUPINE MURDERER.
TO HANG ON AUGUST 25. (Received 15. 19. in a.m.) Perth. July 15. The Executive Council decided that the death sent cnee on Smithson should lie cari’H d out on August 25th. [The trial of David Horatio Smithson for the murder of Elizabeth Compton, a girl of 18. whom ho brutally violated and left dead at Wuodlupine on May 13. was concluded at Perth on .July 6. Mr. Justice Booth said no reasonable
person could doubt that the verdict was correct. Prisoner had outraged an innocent girl. who. in her efforts to defend her honour .had met her death. He had read a statement by the prisoner. Nothing therein was calculated to restrain him from passing sentence. The document would be sent to the proper o.uartor. The death sentence was then pass.ed.]
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 179, 15 July 1911, Page 1
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