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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18286, 23 December 1919, Page 7

Tho House of Lords has reserved judgment on the Crown’s appeal for restoration of the death sentence in tho case heard at Chester in October last, in which a man was sentenced to death for tho murder of a thirteen-year-old cliild while he was drunk. The man’s name is Beard. In announcing reservation of judgment tho Chancellor stated that the Homo Secretary had intimated. that the death sentence in any case would not bo carried out