SENTENCED TO DEATH

Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 27

SENTENCED TO DEATH

YOUTHFUL MURDERERS. SYDNEY, April 6. The trial of the 17-year-old boys Miliar and Clare on a charge of shooting Mrs and Miss Warby in January has commenced. Each boy stated in evidence that th« other did the shooting. Clare said they played games of cards. He won the first, which decided that be should rob the farm-, and Millar won the second, involving the shooting. The police stated that Clare's rifle was clean, but Millar's showed signs of having been fired. Millar and Clare have been convicted and sentenced to death. Mrs Warby and her daughter Amy were shot dead near Narrandera at the end o ( January. Mrs Warby was emerging foam an outhouse, when she was shot in the head, dying shortly afterwards. The daughter, hearing the shot, rushed out, and was confronted by a boy with a pea rifle. She turned to run, but was shot twice in the head and killed instantaneously. It was alleged that the boys had intended to steal all the available money and burn the house and bodies in order to hide their crime. At the inquiry regarding the tragedy Clare stated that he, with the boy Miller, planned to rob the place. Ea got the rifles, and they waited behind a tank until they got an opportunity to shoot the victims. Both the lads had been reading bushranging literature.