EXECUTED.

MURDERERS OF LEWIS.

CORDON ROUND GAOL,

(Sydney "Sua" Szetice.)

(Received January 2Sth, 1.10 a.m.)

LONDON, January 27. Sowlands and Driscoll have been executed. (BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (austbaliah and n.z. cable association.) (Eeceived January 27th, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 27. Two hundred extra police arrived in Cardiff and formed a cordon round the gaol this morning. POLICE PRECAUTIONS IN CARDIFF. (austealian and n.z. cable association.) LONDON, January 26. Extraordinary police precautions are being taken at Cardiff for to-morrow's executions. Witnesses at the trial and other informants have been warned not to frequent the streets for a few days. 'Che executioner is being strongly guarded by the police. The Fire Brigade has been instructed to stand by in the event of the necessity of clearing the crowds by the use of hose. Barriers have been erected around the prison. Mrs Rowlands paid a final visit to her husband and left the prison in a state of collapse.

Driscoll's mother was unable to face the ordeal and accused's brother visited him instead.

Two jurors in the case came to London to-day and presented a reprieve petition signed by eight jurors. The deputation was not received at the Home Office, where the view was taken that they could leave the petition in th*: same way as the others, but no additional importance could be attached to it.

[Edward Rowlands, John Rowlands, and Daniel Driscoll were sentenced to dej.th for the murder of David Lev/is. John Rowlands lost his reason and his sentence was commuted.]

HOME OFFICE STATEMENT. (AUSTRALIA* AKD K.I. AXD BUW CABLJ.) LONDON, January 26. Referring to the jurymen's deputation in connexion with the Cardiff murder, the Home Office says: "It is a fixed and necessary rule that the individual views of jurymen must not be allowed to influence the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy. Jurymen may support an appeal > for mercy like the rest of the public, but once a unanimous verdict is gTVen the individual jurors cannot qualify it."