TRUE REPRIEVED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 421, 12 June 1922, Page 6

TRUE REPRIEVED.

angry comment made. LONDON, June 10. The newspapers angrily comment on the reprieve ol True after Jacoby bad been hanged, though the jury recommended him to mercy. Letters are pouring into the newspaper offices, protesting mat Jacoby was a poor, friendless lad, while True, the soil of a rich, titled and influential mother, whose name has not been disclosed, becomes the guest of the nation at Broadmoor, where he will be allowed lu play czicket and billiards. The letters also point out that no money was spared on I rue s defence and die question ot sanity, according to its legal definition, was Lilly argued at the trial. The Daily Express slates: Ri. lion. U. Shortt’s error ot judgment in reprieving True renders him unlit to be Home Secretary.” The paper adds: ‘‘Crimes of violence are increasing to a terrifying extent, and society is entitled to be safeguarded. Tin; Daily Chronicle, defending lit. Hon. F. Shortt, suggests that True’s insanity developed since the death sentence was passed. The paper declares: ‘‘Mr Shorit had no other alternative than to appoint a committee of medical experts to examine True. Thev inquired, not whether 1 rue was legally insane when he committed the crime’, but whether be is now medically insane.'’—A. anil N.Z. cable.