A GRIME OF 1909.
CHARGE OF MURDER. TRIAL IN GERMANY. Electric Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. The Government has received information from Germany that Wilhelm Gerlach, who was arrested by the German authorities’at Port Said on a charge of murdering Coleman Dungog in New South Wales on November 19, 1909, has been committed for trial. The charge was reduced to manslaughter because there was no evidence to show that the crime was premeditated. The delay was caused by Gerlach’s solicitor lodging a plea of insanity, and it was necessary for prisoner to be lodged in a hospital for the insane to undergo medical examination.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4089, 15 November 1911, Page 5
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111A GRIME OF 1909. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XV, Issue 4089, 15 November 1911, Page 5
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