DEATH SENTENCE.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 14. The State Executive to-day decided that the death sentence should bo carried out on a sex offender, David Bennett, aged 59, convicted of a capital offence against a four-year-old girl at Carlton. He will be hanged on September 26. The last execution for a similar crime took place 41 years ago. Bennett, however, was previously convicted in Western Australia of a sex offence. He received a whipping and a life sentence, but obtained his release after a portion of his sentence had been served. He was later convicted of robbery under arms in company with Angus Murray and received fifteen years’ imprisonment. Murray was executed in 1924 for shooting and killing a bank manager. This was the last execution in Melbourne. It is a coincidence that Bennett will now share that fate.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 245, 15 September 1932, Page 7
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