FIGHT FOR LIFE
PETITIONS FOR REPRIEVE FOR VAQUIER.
FRENCH PREMIER APPEALS TO BRITISH HOME SECRETARY. (Received July 30, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. M. Ilerriot has written to Mr Henderson, appealing for the life of Vaquier, convicted for the murder of the hotelkeeper Jones. Petitions for his reprieve are being opened. Mr Ben Turner, Commoner, writing in the Daily Herald, says: The doubts and dangers surrounding tho case make mo urge the Home Secretary not to hang Vaquier. The Daily Herald, suporting the appeal, affirms that in the neighborhood where the crime was committed there is a widespread belief that the whole of the facts were undisclosed and emphasises the Frenchman’s disadvantage in his defence owing to his ignorance of the language.—A. and N.Z. C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9771, 31 July 1924, Page 5
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