THE DEATH SENTENCE
EXCITEMENT AT HULL DEMAND FOR REPRIEVE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December L Unprecedented excitement prevails at Hull because Sir \V. Joynsmi-Ilirks (Home Secretary) refused to reprieve a young boilermaker named William Smith, who was sentenced to doatli for killing a woman with whom ho lived because lie suspected Iter fidelity. Smith’s mother tramped the streets for clays and nights and obtained 90,000 signatures to a petition for (ho reprieve of her son. She fainted when she was told of the Home Secretary’s decision. An eleventh hour effort is being made to get the decision changed. Enormous crowds engaged in a demonstration to-day, processions marching to the prison crying “ Hang the hangmen, and men and women singing “ Onward, Christian Soldiers,’ ‘ Throw Out the Lifeline,’ and ‘ Abide With Me.’ The Lady Mayoress and the Archbishop of York are interesting themselves in the matter, and (he trade unionists in Hull threaten to strike at noon to-morrow unless a reprieve is granted.—A. and N. A Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 5
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165THE DEATH SENTENCE Evening Star, Issue 18811, 9 December 1924, Page 5
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