MURDER CASE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 5

MURDER CASE

PLEA OF INSANITY,

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT SYDNEi, April 27.

John Curran, found guilty of murdering Thomas Hogan, Mayor of Moree, has been sentenced to death. The defence entered a plea of insanity.

The accused, giving evidence, blamed i Hogan for the loss of a stadium which he built at Moree, but for which he failed to obtain a license to hold boxing contests, and he went .shearing. ! While he was away Hogan, as mayor, obtained the permission of the Chief Secretary, broke the locks of the stadium and held a boxing test for patriotic purposes. He demanded to see Hogan's authority for entering, and during an altercation the tragedy occurred.