ANOTHER PROBLEM.
APPEAL FOR PRISONER’S RE-
LEASE.
TO VISIT DYING MOTHER
(Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Aug. 20. The Homo Secretary, _ Sir William Joynson-Hicks, is again in the limcliglit. This time it is in connection with an agitation that Wilfred F. It. McCartney, who was sentenced on January 18 to ten years’ imprisonment for espionage, should be allowed to leave Parkhurst Prison in order to visit his dying mother. Sir William Joynson-Hicks refused permission, pointing out that tho Home Office had no power to releaso a prisoner for such a purpose, but Mr Georgo Lansbury, Labour member for Bow and Bromley, who is heading the agitation, refuses to accept the answer and appeals to Sir Willip.ni not on the score of legality, but of humanity. Mr Lansbury points out that whatever are a man’s crimes he is a human being. A telegram lias been sent to King George begging him to order McCartney’s temporary release. McCartney’s mother, meanwhile, lies in a darkened room in Southampton Row, continually calling for her favourite son.
A Harley Street specialist states that a visit from the imprisoned man is tho only hope. Nothing else would make tho dying woman rally.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 226, 22 August 1928, Page 7
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195ANOTHER PROBLEM. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 226, 22 August 1928, Page 7
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