BYFLEET MURDER
SENTENCE ON VAQUIEE. PETITION FOR REPRIEVE. BI CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT LONDON, Aug. 8. t A Petition for the reprieve of Pierre Vaquier, sentenced to death for the minder of Alfred Jones, a Bvfleet innkeeper, bears 30,000 signatures, including those of 30 members of the House of Commons. Mr E. Sliortt (Home Secretary in the Lloyd George Cabinet), writing to the_ Daily Express, states that his experience of four years as Home Secretary has convinced him that the final decision should not rest with one man. The final arbiter should be a commission consisting of the Home Secretary, the Lord Chief Justice, and the judge at the trial. It would then be a' matter for consideration whether the death penalty should be carried out unless the commission’s decision was unanimous.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 August 1924, Page 5
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