EDWIN HICKEY HANGED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 11

EDWIN HICKEY HANGED

New South Wales Youth REPRIEVE ATTEMPTS FAIL Sydney, May 14. Edwin Hickey, the youth who was condemned to death .for the murder, of Mr. Montague Henwood, Conciliation Commissioner, in a train, was hanged at 8.30 this morning. Until the end attempts continued to secure a reprieve by means of deputations and motions in Parliamnet. There was a scene in the Legislative Assembly last night when a man was ejected from the public gallery after shouting, "You're a murderer, Bruxner.” The scene followed a statement by a member that the Acting-Premier. Mr. M. F. Bruxner. had refused to receive a deputation of women, in connection with Hickey’s execution. A number of citizens last night cabled to the King: “Returned soldiers and mothers of New South Wales appeal to you to reprieve Edwin Hickey. 18 years of age, who. in the eyes of British law,' is an infant.” Police this morning guarded the Long Bay jail to prevent any possible demonstration, but there were not more than a dozen people outside the gates. A telephone message was received by the housekeeper of the Premier. Mr. B. S. B. Stevens, who is in Eng land, warning her to leave the Premier’s house as it was intended to bomb it. The police did not take the message seriously. Nevertheless, as a precaution, they guarded the homes of Mr. Stevens, Mr. Bruxner and three other Ministers. ENGLISH DEATH SENTENCE London, May 13. Frederick Herbert Charles Field, the aircraftsman of the Royal Air Force, who confessed to the murder of Mrs. Beatrice Sutton, who was found suf focated with pillows over her head in a house at Clapham at the beginning of April, has been sentenced to death.