SENTENCED TO DEATH
MURDERER OF WOMEN CALLOUS BRUTALITY (Received Dec. 2, noon.) CAPETOWN, Dec. 1. Charles Ross was found guilty of si noting Margaret Iveppie outside Naiicbi. and was sentenced to death. A further charge of murdering Winifred Stevenson was not proceeded 1 with. Ross, a game hunter’s son, told the gaoler the day before the tragedy that be shot eight zebra and covered himself with blood. lie coolly described how no invited the women to a clfiema, drove them into she bush, and shot them in the bead.
His mother stated that accused's i\-her had an ungovernable temper. He had’shot prisoners in the Boor War without mercy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17952, 2 December 1932, Page 5
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