GUILTY OF MURDER
DEATH OF GRAZIER'S SON NEW SOUTH WALES CRIME (Received April 22 . 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY. April 22 In the Criminal Court at Armidale to-day Lionel John Roberts, aged 17, was sentenced to death for the murder of George Robert King, who was shot dead on his father's station near Tamworth on February 14. With four bullet wounds in his body, Mr. Robert King, aged 22, son of a well-known grazier, was found dead on February 14 on his parents' property at Limbri, 26 miles from Tamworth, which is 282 miles north of Sydney. The body was lying in an outhouse beside a telephone. and the police believed that Mr. King was shot while in the act of telephoning for assistance after a struggle with his assailant.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 11
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