THE PRICE IS PAID.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 9

THE PRICE IS PAID.

WELSH EXECUTIONS.

Eleventh-Hour Appeals to the

Prince.

BRITISH LEGIONARIES DIE.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 11 a.in.)

LONDON, January 27

Edward Rowlands and Daniel Driscoll have been executed for the murder of David Lewis, the Welsh footballer.

The last effort to save Rowlands and Driscoll from execution was a telegram sent to the Prince of Wales as president of the British Legion, appealing to him to save two members of the legion;

Rowland's wife, her 'farewell visit to the prison, states that her husband said he would rather die than' endure twenty years of hell in prison. (A. and N.Z. and Sydney "Sun.")

FIRM TO THE LAST.

INNOCENCE PROTESTED.

(Received 1 p.m.)

LONDON, January 27

When Rowlands and Driscoll were executed 5000 people had gathered outside the prison but there was no demonstration apart from religious services and the singing of hymns and chants.

Fifty policemen were on duty from 3.30 a.m., although the hour of the execution was eight o'clock. A number of men and women, overcome by the tense atmosphere, fainted when the clock struck eight.

It was stated that the condemned men protested their innocence to the last and were steady and collected.