A FUTILE DEVICE
MURDERERS' APPEAL FAILS.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIGKT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NBW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) , LONDON, 17th January. Two men, Field and Gray, who were sentenced to death for tKe murder of a girl at Eastbourne in August, made .sensational * efforts to escapo with their lives on an appeal against the sentence, by accusing each other of the crime. Field declares that Gray confessed that he stuimed the gir^, and, he understood, buried her alive. Gra.,\ • denies Fieldi's story, alleging that Field admitted that he himself killed the girl, became she smacked: his face.
(Received January 19, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, 18th January. The appeals were dismissed. The Chief Justice declared that the stories of Gray and Field were fabrications, put forward as a last desperate attempt to escape the consequences of their crime.
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 16, 19 January 1921, Page 7
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132A FUTILE DEVICE Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 16, 19 January 1921, Page 7
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