SENTENCE TO DEATH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 123, 24 April 1936, Page 9

SENTENCE TO DEATH.

FIFTEEN IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, April 23. The Sate Cabinet to-day decided to carry out the death sentences on Frank Howard Jones, aged 20, and Edwin John Hickey, aged 17. Jones will be executed on May 7 and Hickey on Way 14 at the Long Bay Penitentiary. Ihe case of another youth has been postponed for further consideration. Including the two youths to be executed, there are at present 15 men under sentence of death in New South Wales. The latest is James Earsman, aged 6S, who was to-day at Dubbo convicted and sentenced to death for murdering John Hewitt, < aged 94, at Gilgandra, the latter being killed in a hut on January. 20. The motive was apparently robbery. Earsman was recommended to mercy. ‘

Hickey was found guilty of murdering Mr Montague Henwood, State Conciliation Commissioner, in a railway train. Jones was charged with eight offences and was sentenced to death for wounding Allen Clarke with intent to murder at the North Strathfield Railway Station on June 30. A masked man held up the stationmaster, who told the intruder he had no money and no keys, whereupon a shot was fired in his direction. This attracted two porters,' one of whom, Clarke, in defying tlie bandit, was shot in the ab~ domen.