COURT-MARTIAL IN BAGDAD
Aid Given Former Premier
BAGDAD, August 6 A Bagdad court-martial has found seven persons—five men and two Persian women—guilty of hiding and aiding General Nuri al Said, the Iraqi Premier, before the recent coup. General Nuri escaped after the coup and was caught the next day, July 15, dressed as a woman and was killed. It was. stated at the trial that the wife of one of the defendants also was killed at the time. The seven received sentences of from one to five imprisonment with hard labour, the British United Press said.
..Execution in Fiji.—The first execution for murder in Fiji for five and a half years took place at Suva gaol this morning. Edward B:han Singh, aged 20, who was convicted on May 22 of the murder of his nine months old son, was hanged. All other sentences of death since January, 1953, have been commuted to life imprisonment.—August 6.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28658, 7 August 1958, Page 11
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