NO REPRIEVE FOR GUNN
DECISION OF CABINET. Wellington, June 15. In collection with tho decision of Cabinet in Council not to interfere with the sentence of death passed on Dennis Guun, the Auckland murderer, I am informed that Cabinet spent the whole morning considering the Judge's report, examining the fingerprint evidence, and the petitions and appeals on tho prisoner's behalf. Afte:- the final decision had bene arrived at, it was made known to the members of Cabinet by the Minister fot- Justice that since his sentence Dennis Gunn, who had at first refused to allow a print to be taken of his palm, had consented to this course. The Minister had received the fingerprint experts' report on the palm print and had it been favourable to tho prisoner, it would have been communicated to the Governor-General and his advisers.—Manawatu Times •pecial.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4016, 16 June 1920, Page 6
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