EMPLOYER SHOT
FARM LABOURER SENTENCED.
(United Press Asm—-Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 9.0 p.m.) Sydney, June 4. In the Criminal Court to-day Harry Murray, aged 20, a farm labourer, was sentenced to death for murdering his employer, Ernest Fenwick, at Scone on April 4. Murray shot Fenwick after the latter reprimanded him for kissing Fenwick’s 15-year-old daughter, with whom Murray was infatuated. The jury reCotnmended Murray id mercy.
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Southland Times, Issue 25303, 5 June 1935, Page 7
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