THE ROMA TRAGEDY.
BROTHERS LAYCOCE SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day.
At the Roma Circuit Court the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, with a strong recommendation to mercy, due to provocation, against the brothers Layeock. Both were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
The Roma affair was the outcome of a drinking bout, which developed into a tight with sticks, resulting in Frederick Turvoy—one of a party of four men—being killed. His brother Charles was assaulted and was saved from a further attack by the intervention of a witness named Cann.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 May 1928, Page 5
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