MURDERER EXECUTED
FIRST IN HOBART FOR TWENTYTHREE YEARS. By Teloarranh— Press Association— Copy rls'# (Received March 11, 9.35 p.m.) HOBART, March 11. Belbin has been executed for the murder of the girl Ledwell in October. Death was instantaneous. Belbin confessed that he deserved the full penalty. This was the first execution in Hobart for twenty-three years. , --•
fA message from Launceston oh October 27th said that a girl named Ledwell, eighteen years of age, daughter of a farmer at Deloraine, was found with,tho top of her head blown off.] . . :
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8679, 12 March 1914, Page 5
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