DOUBLE MURDER PROVED
KILLING OF YOUNG PEOPLE
MOXLEY SENTENCED TO DEATH.
FOREIGN SUBSTANCE IN HEAD,
DOCTORS DECLARE HIS SANITY;
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.20 p.m. Sydney, June 16. The jury convicted William Moxley of murder of Frank Wilkinson and Dorothy Denzel after a brief retirement, and he was sentenced to death. An X-ray' photograph of Moxley’s head produced in court disclosed a foreign object which his counsel sought to show was a bullet as the result of shooting two years ago.
Government medical officers gave evidence that there was no sign of insanity and nothing abnormal about Moxley’s mental condition during his detention in gaol. Mr. Justice Haise Rogers in sentencing Moxley said the prisoner had been found guilty of one of the most foul crimes in the history of the State. The jury had come to the only possible conclusion on the evidence.
Moxley received the verdict calmly bui collapsed on leaving, the dock.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1932, Page 9
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