LIFE-TICKET MAN.
SENTENCED TO DEATH 36 YEARS AtSU. Charles Parton, 57, market salesman, was charged at Southampton with snatching a purse from a woman. Pleading guilty, Parton handed to the magistrates a written statement, in which, after appealing for mercy for the sake ot his "four poor innocent babies, the eldest not yet six years old, and his sick wife, an incurable consumptive," he said: "For myself I care nothing. My life is not worth living. I am a life-ticket man. "I was sentenced to death nearly 40 years ago and my life has been a misery to mc ever since my discharge in 1900, having completed 11 years and 7 months. "I was never guilty of wilfully taking life. "I am the only life-sentence man who, ever had his ticket of leave cancelled, and since my last discharge from Dartmoor Prison I have struggled to obtain an honest living." Parton was sentenced to three months' hard labour. The crime for which he was sentenced was committed in Manchester In February, ISS9. An elderly man, senior partner in a firm of paper manufacturers, was found poisoned in a cab. His watch and chain and money bad been stolen. Parton was identified as having got into tbe cab with the murdered man and afterwards jumped out.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 37, 13 February 1926, Page 23
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