MURDER SENTENCE
CROWN REPRIEVE STONER RECEIVES LIFE TERM. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ißeceived this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, Jane 25. Stoner has been reprieved and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Sterner, a 19-year-old chauffeur, became enamoured of his employer s wife, Mrs Kattenbury, and in a fit of jealousy murdered Mr Kattenbury, who was an elderly man. Mrs Kattenbury’ was jointly charged with Stoner, but was acquited. Stoner was sentenced to death. Mrs Kattenbury a few days later committed suicide by stabbing herself and leaping into a river.
Ruling out the plea that Mrs Kattenhutv iijnd Stoner should ihav-q been tried separately tor the murder of Kattenbury, Lord Hevvart lyes ter day dismissed the appeal against Stoner’s sentence without hearing the Crown and without permitting Stoner to give evidence
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1935, Page 5
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