TRIPLE EXECUTION AT EREMANTLE.
THE BROOME MURDERERS HANGED.
CHIEF WARDER SERIOUSLY .HURT. By Telegraph Press Association—Copjright. (Received December 14, 11.20 p.m.) . Perth, December 14. The Norwegian Hagen, and the Malays, Espada and M'arques, were executed at Fromantle,' this morning, for the murder of the commercial traveller, Liebglib, at Broome. Hagen died protesting his innocence. TJie two Malays were hanged together an hour later. Espade owned his guilt on tho scaffold. He twice moved his pinioned arms, and held on to the slack of the rope. Chief Warder Webster was standing on the trap to hold the rope free, when the bolt was drawn, and he fell with the convicts into the well, and received severe injuries to his head, necessitating his removal to the hospital^ The Malays died instantaneously. Mark Liebglib was a dealer in pearls, and was enticed on a boat at Broome, in West Australia, on pretence that the crew had pearls to sell him. He was attacked, robbed, and thrown overboard, and was beaten back when he tried to climb on board again. His body was picked up on the beach next day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13050, 15 December 1905, Page 5
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186TRIPLE EXECUTION AT EREMANTLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13050, 15 December 1905, Page 5
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