GAOLED FOR LIFE
Murderer’s Sentence Is Commuted SYDNEY, May 6. The Executive Council to-day commuted Jones’s death sentence to penal servitude for life. The Minister of Justice stated in the Assembly that Hickey’s case would come before Cabinet next week. He gave the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. J. T. Lang, an assurance that he would direct Cabinet's attention to the provisions of the Children and Young Persona Act passed by the British Parliament in relation to hanging. Hickey will be 18 years old to-morrow.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 122, 7 May 1936, Page 8
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85GAOLED FOR LIFE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 122, 7 May 1936, Page 8
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