REPRIEVED MURDERER
FRIEND TO HUNDREDS. Thirty years after he was sentenced to death for murdering a recluse, Patrick Callaghan has died at Preston, Lancashire, loved and respected by scores of people he had helped. He was reprieved, and in May, 1925, he walked to freedom out of Parkhurst Prison, after serving 19 years’ penal servitude. He always maintained his innocence.
Callaghan immediately started to do good, and became a friend to hundreds. Although broken in health, he walked, miles to help a needy person. An officer at the Preston Borough Police headquarters told an interviewer: “He was a simple and kind person, with a cheerful word for everyone.” Callaghan was nearly 67. Of his 19 years in prison he spent 15 years at Portland and the rest at Parkhurst. He was tried at Manchester Assizes with another man in 1906. The trial lasted three days, and at midnight on November 19, Callaghan was" sentenced to death. The other man was acquitted.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 July 1936, Page 12
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