15 DEATH SENTENCES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 5

15 DEATH SENTENCES

Murders in New South Wales TWO YOUTHS TO DIE (Received 24, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 24. The State Cabinet yesterday decided to carry out the death sentences on Frank Howard Jones, aged 20, and Edwin John Hickey, aged 17. Jones will be executed on May 7 and Hickey on May 14 at the Long Bay penitentiary. The case of another youth has been postponed for further consideration. Including the two youths to be executed, there are at present 15 men under sentence of death in New South Wales. The latest is James Earsman, aged 68, who was to-day at Dubbo convicted and sentenced to death for murdering John Hewitt, aged 94, at Gilgandra, the latter being killed in a hut on January 20. The motive was apparently robbery. Earsman. was recommended to mercy.

Hickey was found guilty of murdering Mr Montague Henwood, a State Conciliation Commissioner, in a railway train. Henwood’s body was found alongside the line a Faulconbridge, 51 miles west of Sydney, on November 4 with one side of the head shockingly iujured. Jones was charged with eight offences and was sentenced to death for wounding Allen Clarke with intent to murder at tho North Strathfield railway statiou on June 30. A. masked man held up the stationmaster, who told the intruder he had no money and no keys, whereupon a shot was fired in his direction. This attracted two porters, one of whom, Allen Clarke, in defying the bandit, was shot in the abdomen.