A MURDERER'S END
- i '! HE STUFF that interests the LONDON ' ' Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, August 13. ’ (Received August 14, at 12.20 p.m.) ■;: T A --Wesleyan minister thrice daily visited Bopith, the wife murderer, who said he was grateful for his spiritual help. Smith »ged remarkably, and was* suffering from ' . nervous prostration. He /was unable to walk to tho scaffold, and had to be supported by the warders.- For the first time *. ;.f n . n tany years reporters were not adt, - 4 i-toitted. A crowd of men in khaki and ’ weii-aresscd women were at the gaol gate. The murderer’s last letter was to a Miss Pegler, in which he stated that he had taued to obtain Justice from earthly Judges, and would prefer death to imprisonment. “An innocent man,” he added, “ goes to an untimely end, the vie ' a cruel fate. God alone is my Judge. I shall have perfect peace.”
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Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 7
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151A MURDERER'S END Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 7
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