KILLED HIS DAUGHTER
HARD LABOUR FOR LIFE.' JURY ATTEND PICTURE SHOW. •- ; I \ ' | I (Received I.SO p.m.) . ; j / BRISBANE, tfhis Day. Oiv night 'the jjiry-'irfy fcjte Duck -murder trial, /foreseeing, that they would be locked jup all' night, .asked tb ' be; allowed to-.lb.reak; the monotony by attending a picture shc/w. -By permission of the and at the expense of the Crown the 12 jurors, escorted by police, occupied seats in the dress circle and witnessed a Wild West production in which most of th'e characters except the hero and heroine were slain or wounded. In the course of Duck's trial the police produced a confession made to them by Duck, giving pathetic details of how his daughter pleaded with him not to shoot her. "VVhen he pointed the revolver at hor she screamed, and as she refused to be quiet he fired and shot her dead. TJ>.cn he strapped the body to the sail die on his horse and rode 37 miles through the night. He buried his daughter at dawn. Duck was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 9 July 1925, Page 5
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