MORRISON CONDEMNED.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13057, 17 March 1911, Page 2

MORRISON CONDEMNED.

A DRAMATIC SCENE,

A CONSTABLE'S ALLEGATION.

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London, March 15. Sterner Morrison, charged with the murder of the, Jew Berou, was found guilty and sentenced to death. On /receiving sentence of death Morrison stood with his amis folded and his head flung back and gazed defiantly at the foreman and jud^e. Tl ieiU referring to the closing invocation of tiie death sentence, he exclaimed. "I decline such mercy. I do not beficrve there is a God in heaven." xiC? IS sel. for tlle Prosecution argued that Morrison's defence rested almost entirely on his own oaths. The prisoner s attack on witnesses suggested an inquiry into his own antecedents, Hence he nad been searchingly crossexamined. The prosecution contended that prisoner was a practised burglar and that the instrument of death was probably a jemmy. Regarding the murdered man Heron meeting his fatebecause, of alleged political revenge Inspector Wensley had testified that Beron did not give information concerning the Houndsditch murderers. lne judge, m consultation with counsel, agreed to admit fresh evidence. A constable stated that the prisoner had been definitely charged with tho murder on arrest, 'which tho police hitherto denied. The wholo day was spent by Mr Justice Darling m a searching inquiry into, the police* treatment of Morrison. Constable Greaves gave evidence that he wrote to Morrison's counsel in the interests of justice, detailing what had occurred at the police station, and said that ho had hesitated to speak earlier as he did not desire to implicate his colleagues.