A BRUTAL CRIME.
SENTENCE OF DEATH PASSED. LONDON, Jan. 28, Burrows was sentenced to death. The defence raised the plea of insanity, but the prison doctor gave evidence that Burrows was normal and remarkably detached and callous. Two other medical witnesses regarded him as abnormal.
Probationer Constable Herbert Burrows was arrested at Worcester for the murder of a publican, George Laight, his wife and their baby, whose bodies were found in the hotel cellar, where an attempt had apparently been made to burn them.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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84A BRUTAL CRIME. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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