MURDER CHARGE.
SYDNEY, April 16. The trial of Paul Minel on a charge of murdering a camp mate, whose dismembered body was found in a creek last November, has concluded. The jury failed to agree after being locked up for the night. At an inquest into the death of James Smith, or Sorenson,, whose dismembered body was found in a creek at Narrrabri, tho police produced a statement signed by Paul Minel, aged 50, a labourer, to the effect that Smith, during a drunken quarrel, attempted to strike him with a brick, or stone, which Minel wrested from him, striking Smith with it. Smith fpll, and appeared to go to sleep. A short time afterward Minel saw him roach for a rifle, and a scuffle ensued. Minel seized tho rifle, which exploded, and Smith fell. Minel later noticed that ho was dead. Ho secured an axe and chopped the body to pieces, and placed these in bags, the head-, separately, . and dumped them in tho creek. Minel then worked about , tho district for somo days. He had a good deal of drink. He sold Smith’s motor truck, and then took Smith’s name and left the district.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 120, 17 April 1930, Page 7
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196MURDER CHARGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 120, 17 April 1930, Page 7
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