HIS NATURAL LIFE.
PHILLIPS' CASE
(Per Press Association. —Copyriyht.)
Melbourne, This day.
Speaking with reference to repeated assertions in the Press that the commutation of a death sentence to imprisonment for life was equivalent to twenty years, the Solicitor-General states that the assumption is wrong, although criminals had been released after serving long periods where sentenced to life, it was not the intention of the Administrator to follow this course in the Phillips' case. The Executive were determined to mark their sense of the enormity of Phillips' crime by imprisonment for the term of his natural life.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 302, 21 April 1897, Page 3
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97HIS NATURAL LIFE. Hastings Standard, Issue 302, 21 April 1897, Page 3
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