SENTENCED TO DEATH.
REPRIEVE REFUSED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Dee. 7. Unprecedented excitement prevails at Hull -because the Home Secretary (Sir W. Joynson-Hicks) lias refused to reprieve a young boiler-maker, William Smith, who was sentenced to death for killing a woman with whom lie lived because lie suspected her fidelity. •Smith’s mother tramped the streets for days and nights, and obtained 90,000 signatures to a petition for a reprieve. She fainted when told of the Home Secretary’s decision. i An eleventh hour effort is being made to get the decision changed. Enormous croivds engaged in a demonstration to-day, processions inarching to the prison, crying: “Hang the hangman, ” and men and women singing ’“Onward Christian Soldiers,” “Throw Out the Life-Line,” and “Abide With Me.” The Lady Mayoress and the Archbishop of York are interesting themselves in the request for a reprieve, and trade unionists in Hull threaten to strike at noon to-morrow unless a, reprieve is granted.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 December 1924, Page 5
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156SENTENCED TO DEATH. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 December 1924, Page 5
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