WANGANUI MURDER.
MASTLY ESCORTED TO WELLINGTON. m MOUNT CRAWFORD. PRISON. (.By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Herbert Frederick Manly, who was found guilty of the murder of Gladys Barrington Cromarty at Wanganui on May 9 last, and sentenced to death, was brought to Wellington under escort to-day and placed in Mount Crawford prison, where, if the Executive Council upholds the sentence of the Supreme Court, he will remain until his execution.
Manly was for some time after his arrest kept in Wanganui prison, but was subsequently placed in Mount Crawford prison, where he remained until his trial at Wanganui.
It is seven, years since an execution has taken place in Wellington, the last one being that of Daniel Richajd Cooper, who was found guilty on May 23, 1923, of the murder of an infant at IsTewlands, near Johnsonville, and who was hanged at the old Terrace gaol on Saturday, June 16, 1923.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 15 August 1930, Page 3
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