GIBRALTAR SENSATION.
SUBALTERN MURDERS COLONEL. TRIAL OF ASSAILANT. (Received Thursday. 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 20. Advices from Gibraltar state that Lieut. Duffield, charged at the Police Court with murdering Colonel Fitzgerald, commander of the Second Battalion, East Surreys, at Gibraltar, was remanded. The prosecution read Duffield’s two statements, firstly: “I am perfectly sane and know what I have done.” The second statement alleged the officer’s neglect of duty, and addpd: “It is better that one man die than that the whole regiment be ruined. I made a mess of things. I missed with the first shot, but hit with the second was meant for myself.” Lieut. Doyle gave evidence that while guarding Duffield he asked Duffield why he did such an awful thing. Duffield replied that since the regiment left Jersey the training had gone to pieces, the men being messed about. He added that he considered the crime for two days and then decided to do it. It was already written in the book of words that he was to die.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 22 April 1927, Page 5
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