LAST MOMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19776, 28 January 1928, Page 6

LAST MOMENTS

EXECUTION OF ROWLANDS AND DRISCOLL NO DISTURBING INCIDENTS Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11.35 a.m.l When Rowlands and Driscoll were executed 5,000 people had gathered outisde the prison, but there was no demonstration apart from religious services, hymns, and chants. Fifty policemen were on duty irom 3.30 a.m., although the hour of execution was 8 o’clock. A number of men and women, overcome by the tense atmosphere, fainted when the clock struck eight. It is stated that the condemned men protested their innocence to the last. They were steady and collected. (Received January 28, at 1 p.m.) In a last effort to save Rowlands and Driscoll a telegram was sent to the Prince of Wales, as president of the British Legion, appealing to him to save the lives of two Legioners. Rowlands’s wife, after a farewell visit to the prison, stated that her husband had said that he would rather die than endure twenty years of hell in prison. [Driscoll and Rowlands were convicted of the murder of David Lewis, a Cardiff footballer.]