CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 13

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

JBVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION. {cktod rosea asbocutioh— -by blbctbio TM.WJBA*B—COPTMOBT.) LONDON, July 2. The prison chaplain, the Rev. 8. B. Chraavffle-Hurray dramatically revealed before the Capital Punishment Comfldaaioa that ho had had a narrow escape frosa being strangled by a murderer. He aaid: "Am I entered the eondemned man's cell on the night before hie execution a rope flicked past my face. The man said that he meant to •tmagb the first entrant, adding: 'lf they want murder, they will have it. Mr Murray aaid that ho did not regard morder as the worst crime. Or. «. Hamblin-Smith, of Birmingham Prison, strongly opposed hanging. Hie said that he bad witnessed 30 executions and had seen the condemned mm daily at long intervals and had tfturwd to know them well. There should be degrees of murder, the first only Carrying execution. He would abolish tfee black cap, the invocation of the and the Amen. The sheriff's chaplain said that tfetre ahonld bo no prison gate hu.lettn, no bell, and furthermore the jpilge should attend the exec* >ns.