ALICE PARKINSON CASE.
i: fmi \sm gom mrrr;: u wa its on PEE'M.I itiL LET I'Ll ON Wl'l’ll 100.00(1 NAMES HANDED 'TO GOVERNOR-GENERAL. ! Lie.-- As:natation Telegram | A LGK LA N 1 >• April 2.1. I The Alice Parkinson Release Goin--1 niitt'c waited on tin l Prime Minister this niuiiing to :i - k him whether any- • hin” could he dune in the way of approaching the Prince of Wales for the release of Ihe prisoner. Mr Massey told ! the (loptilai u,n that it was not ;i matter ‘ i„ whid, the Prince of Wales enu d possibly interfere, lie advr-ed them to eiunmuiiicate wit!: the Munster of .[ ust ice or with the Judge _who sentenced the nrisniicr. or as a tiiird course, to have' the petition, which has tsf-r-n largelv signed, presented io I ailiainent. These, he explained, were the onlv methods he could think of Unit were open to tile committee and were likelv to product* any result. 'l'he committee also waited on the Govern- r-General and profliti d a jietition with over 100.000 signatures praying for I lie release of Alice Parkinson, and besought his consideration m the .-jiirit of justice, mercy and humanity.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5462, 24 April 1920, Page 2
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193ALICE PARKINSON CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5462, 24 April 1920, Page 2
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