YAKAVOLEFF TRAGEDY
AND THE SEQUEL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Cory right Sydney, August 14. A sequel to the Yakavoleff tragedy is tliat M. Beaudo vu, who lirul been living with Mdme. Yakavoleff, when informed that the woman was' dead he returned homo demented. Ho was taken to the police station and charged with being of unsound mind, and was removed to tho reception house. Yakavoleff's eight-year-old son witnessed tho tragedy. GEORGE SMITH HANGED HIS LAST LETTER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 13. Geerge Smith, convicted of the murder of three women whom ho had falsely married, by drowning them in baths, was executed at Maidstone Gaol. A Wesloyan minister thrice daily visited Smith, who was grateful for spiritual help. Ho had aged remarkably and suffered from nervous prostration so that he was unablo to walk to the scaffold, and was supported by warders. For the first tlV.e for many years reporters were not admitted. A crowd of men in khaki and of well-dressed women waited at the gate of the gaol. . In a last letter to Miss Pegler, Smith wrote: "I have failed to obtain justice from earthly judges, and prefer death' to imprisonment. An innocefit _ man goes to an untimely end, tho victim of cruel fate. God alone is my judge. 1 shall have perfect peace."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 6
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