DEATH PENALTIES
FIVE COMMUTED ONE MAN TO BE HANGED SYDNEY, June 1. The Executive Council today reviewed the cases of six men who had been condemned to death. It was decided that James Leighton Massey, aged 21, who shot and killed Norman Stead after attempting to rob a service station at Darlinghurst on February 10, should be hanged on June 15.
Aubrey Potter, aged 22. who was convicted with Massey for the Darlinghurst garage murder, but. who did not shoot or carry arms, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment with hard labour for fifteen years.
James Earsman, aged 67. sentenced for the murder of John Hewett, aged 94, who was found battered to death in a hut at Gilgandra on January 19, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life with hard labour. In the following three cases the sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life:—Lionel John Roberts, aged 17, who murdered Robert King, aged 22, grazier, near Tamworfh on February 14; Roy Malcolm . Souter, aged 17, who shot Christopher Bolger, aged 22, grazier, near Wagga on December 30 and threw his body into a well; Percival Henry Thompson, aged 55, sentenced for the murder of his wife and his mother-in-law at Parramatta on December 27.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 9
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