BOY MURDERER.
" 5DEATH SENTENCE PASSED. Found juiltv, with a recommendation to I merry, William Nelson Adams, aged 17 ' yeare, was sentenced to death by Mr. j Justice Darling at Surrey Assizes recently 1 for the murder of George Jones at Sutton, Surrey, on June 10. j Jones, aged 60 years, with a long record of crime, for which he had served penal servitude, was at the tim« c ,f the murder working at Woolwich Arsenal Adams eta ted that Jone* -.vat? , „ M i ' about income-tai demands and had asked , Adams to kill him 1 The defence set up the plea that Adams , was of defective mmd and did not know j he was doing wrorii;. I Dr. Griffith, medical officer at Brixton Prison, said Adams wa.s simple-minded and backward, but knew the difference j between right and wrong. j Adams received the sentence unmoved. |
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17276, 27 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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