STRANGE PROTEST
EXECUTION OPPOSED. DEMONSTRATION IN PRISON. PROCESSION OF COSTLY CARS. SLOW ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT. CONVICTION UNDER, AN ALIAS. (United Preis Association— Copyright). (Received This Bay, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. While the execution of Charles Malcolm Lake, for the murder of George Hamblin, an inmate of a Westminster institution, was being carried out at Pentonville, members of a new society that opposes the death penalty demonstrated outside the prison.
A procession of expensive cars, headed by Mrs Vanderelst (founder of the society) slowly encircled the prison. Men and women prayed in the fttf*P6'fc Lake was convicted under the name of George Harvey, refusing to reveal his identity because the shock might kill his invalid mother, from whom tho news was stilt kept. Tho Coroner told the jury that for the purposes of execution deceased was a person named Harvey.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 130, 14 March 1935, Page 5
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