CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
A WEIRD STORY. (DXITID P85.-S ASSOCIATION— BT BLECTBIC TZLEGBAPH—COPYBIOHT.) LONDON, July 16. A weird story o£ a man who underwent capital punishment and committed murder afterwards formed part of Sir Simon Vonderaas's evidence before the Capital Punishment Committee. The man was hanged, but not in a direct way. When the executioner came to take him off he found that he had lost his senses, but was alive. He gave him money to escape. The man became a hospital servant, and throe years later killed a hospital patient. . Sir Simon recited another case of a man who committed murder after witnessing as execution twfi days before.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19983, 18 July 1930, Page 19
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