LAW TO TAKE ITS COURSE
MURDER IN NEW SOUTH WALES WOMAN’S STORY DISCREDITED (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph —Copyright) (Received 11th June, 8.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Minister of Justice, the Hon. L. O. Martin, in the Assembly to-day, mentioned the case of James Massey, who will be hanged next Monday. Mr Martin said that he had received a statutory declaration from Mrs Elizabeth Bellingham, who declared that she was inside Stead’s garage and witnessed the shooting, which so upset her that she had since been unable to tell her story. Consequently she had remained in the background. She described the shooting as accidental. Stead made a grab at Massey, seized his wrist, and the levolvei went off. Mr Martin said that detectives had investigated the woman’s story, which was so at variance with the known and undoubted facts, that the Government was unable the sligntest credence in it Consequently the law would be allowed to take its course.
The Executive Council reviewed the cases of six men who had been condemned to death. It was decided that James Leighton Massey, aged 21, who shot and killed Norman Stead after attempting to rob a service station at Darlinghurst on 10th February should be hanged on 15th June.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 11 June 1936, Page 8
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