MOXLEY EXECUTION.
MURDERER MEETS HIS DOOM. (Received 1.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Members of the Howard Prison Reform ' League yesterday interviewed the Premier of New South Wales, Mr. B. S. Stevens, and sought commutation of the death sentence passed on William Moxley for the Liverpool murders. The Premier, after placing the representations before his colleagues, announced that the law must take its course. Moxley was hanged at Long Bay gaol at 8.30 this morning. He walked resolutely to the scaffold. He did not make any statement concerning the crime for •which he was executed.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1932, Page 7
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