BUCKLEY TO HANG ON MURDER CHARGE
CRIMINAL HAS LONG RECORD OF OFFENCES. <United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, November 28. Found guilty of the murder of Mr T. V R. Berriman, at Glenferrie, in 1923, Richard Buckley has been sentenced to death. The jury retired for a few minutes only before returning their verdict. Buckley took the verdict quietly. He reiterated his innocence, and said that circumstances were against him. His record discloses him as one of the worst criminals in Australian history. His gaol career began in 1879, and there followed crimes of violence, including robbery, malicious wounding, garroting and robbery under arms. At least two men with whom he was associated have been hanged. He had served sentences aggregating more than twenty years.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 1
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