STRANGE REQUEST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 192, 29 July 1932, Page 7

STRANGE REQUEST

BY CONDEMNED MAN MOXLEY’S APPEAL TO MINISTER. TO CAREY OUT DEATH SENTENCE (United Press Association—By CableCopy right.) (Received 29, 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, July 29. William Moxley, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Frank Wilkinson and Dorothy Denzel, has written to the Minister of Justice, Mr. Martin, asking that the sentence be carried out. Cabinet decides Moxley’s fate next week. His action is stated to be without precedent in the State. The last man hanged in New South Wales was in 1924.

William Moxley, who is under sentence of death for the Liverpool murders, conducted his own appeal before the Full Court against the jury’s verdict, his counsel by consent withdrawing from the proceedings. Moxley, in an impassioned outburst, appealed for justice, and asked the court to hear the evidence of three doctors whose evidence had not been taken at the trial. The court adjourned the hearing of the appeal for three weeks for that purpose. The bodies of Frank Wilkinson (aged twenty-six) and Dorothy Denzel (aged twenty-one), who went for a motor drive from the latter’s home at Burwood on April 10, were found near an old German internment camp at Liverpool, twenty miles south of Sydney. The victims had beet shot. Moxley was convicted on a charge of murdering them, and was sentenced to death. An X-ray photograph of Moxley’s head, which was produced in court, disclosed a foreign object, which his counsel sought to show was a bullet that had been there since he was shot two years ago. Government medical officers gave evidence that there was no sign of insanity and nothing abnormal about Moxley’s mental condition during his detention in gaol.