NO REPRIEVE.
Violator of Four-Year-Old Child To Be Hanged.
CAREER IN CRIME.
MELBOURNE, September 14. The Victorian Executive to-day decided tht the death sentence should be carried out on David B»nnett, aged 59, convicted of a capital offence against a four-year-old girl at Carlton and he will be hanged on September 20. The last execution for a similar crime took place 41 years ago. Bennett, however, was previously convicted in West Australia of the same sort of offence. He received a flogging and imprisonment for life, but obtained his release after a portion of the sentence had been served. Later he was convicted of robbery under arms in company with Angus Murray, receiving a sentence of 15 years' imprisonment. Murray was executed in 1924 for shooting and killing a bank manager. This was the last execution in Melbourne and it is a coincidence that Bennett now will share Murray's fate.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 219, 15 September 1932, Page 7
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