MAN AND WIFE REPRIEVED
Guilty of Murder of Children TRAGEDY IN GLASGOW SLUM f (N.Z.P A.-Eeuter—Copyright). (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 6. William Park and his wife, a Glasgow couple, who were sentenced to death for murdering three of their five children, have been reprieved. were sentenced following trial after the police had broken into their sealed gas-filled rooms in a tenement house in the slum district of Gorbals, Glasgow. The police saved the parents and the two youngest children, hut three daughters, aged 15, 14 and 12 years respectively, were dead. Parks’s action in attempting to kill the family followed disclosure that the eldest daughter was pregnant.
The two Parks were to have been hanged on December 29, but the execution was stayed until the hearing of an appeal against the conviction. Three judges of the Scottish Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed the appeal. Reprieve followed mounting public interest in the case and the signing of a petition to the Home Secretary.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 74, 7 January 1949, Page 3
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