MAN’S SECOND DEATH SENTENCE
GUILTY OF ANOTHER MURDER (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 17. “For the second time 38-year-old Walter Rowland walked into -the condemned cell at Strangways Gaol, Manchester,” says the “Daily Mail.” “Rowland, in 1934. was sentenced to death for the murder of his two-year-old daughter Mavis. The jury on that occasion recommended him to mercy and the villagers of his home town in Derbyshire petitioned for his reprieve which was granted. “A jury of three women and nine men yesterday found him guilty of the murder of 40-year-old Olive Balchin, hose battered body was found in Manchester.” , t ... Rowland, who pleaded not guilty,’, was, according to the “Daily Herald, . accused of attempted murder when only 19.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 25061, 18 December 1946, Page 9
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