SHOT HIS EMPLOYER
REPRIMAND FOR KISSING GIRL. MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.20 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 Scorie on April 4. Murray shot Fenwick after the latter had reprimanded him for’ kissing Fenwick’s 15-year-old daughter, with whom Murray was infatuated. The jury recommended mercy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1935, Page 5
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