EXECUTION OF ROUSE
QUESTION OF A CONFESSION.
NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION. NONE PASSED OUT OF PRISON. tUnited Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON", March 16. The Secretary of State for Home Affairs (Mr J." R. Clynes), in answer to questions in the House of Commons, said he was satisfied, after searching inquiries, that no confession by Alfred Rouse, who was executed last week for the murder of an unknown man, had been passed out of prison by any official. It was most unlikely that it had beem passed out by anyone else. Mr B. W. Gardner (Labour): "Certain newspapers claimed that definite information concerning a confession came from the prison." Mr Clynes: "I cannot answer for the resources and inventiveness of> the Press. I answer other inquiries." Ma; Clynes added that he had no power to prohibit the publication of such sensational erroneous information. There was a firmly established practice against the publication officially of such confessions. No official information concerning Rouse's last hours was given out.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 51, Issue 132, 17 March 1931, Page 5
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