SCENES AT CARDIFF

Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 7

SCENES AT CARDIFF

DESPERATE EFFORTS TO SECURE REPRIEVE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 2G. The visit of the aged mother of Daniel Driscoll and her farewell to her son in the condemned cell caused remarkable scenes outside Cardiff Gaol, and as she was leaving a great crowd surged round the grief-stricken woman in efforts to shake her hand. It was only with difficulty that she reached a taxi cab. Liverpool trade unionists are asking that a general stoppage of work shall he called on Thursday _it Sir Austen Chamberlain’s decision is not altered. The Roman Catholics are arranging for ‘The Rosary’ to be recited outside the prison at the time of the execution as a dramatic last-minute effort to secure a commutation of the sentences of Rowlands and Driscoll. Nine members of the jury have signed a memorial, which will bo sent to the Home Office this morning. This states that the jury was influenced by the allegation that the men were members of a gang, and the jurymen think that two lives should not be forfeited for one. Masses for (he doomed men have been said in many Roman Catholic churches in Wales.