HICKEY HANGED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 140, 15 May 1936, Page 10

HICKEY HANGED.

GREAT PUBLIC FEELING. Received Mav 14, 1.15 p.m. SIDNEY, May 14. Edwin Hickey, aged 18, -was hanged at 8.30 this morning. Until the end attempts were continued to secure his reprieve by means of deputations and motions in Parliament. There was a scene in the Legislative Assembly last night, when a man from the public gallery wa6 ejected after shouting: “Y’ou’re a murderer, Bruxner!” (to Hon. M. F. Bruxner, New South Wales Deputy-Premier). • The scene followed a statement by a member that Mr Bruxner had refused to reecive a deputation of women in connection" with Hickey’s execution. A number of citizens last night cabled the King: “Returned soldiers and mothers of New South Wales appeal to you to reprieve Edwin Hickey eighteen years of age, in the eyes of the British law as an infant.”

The police this morning guarded tho Long Bay Gaol to prevent any possible demonstration, but there were not more than a dozen people outside the gates. A telephone message was received by the housekeeper of Hon. B. S. B. Stevens (Premier) who is in England, warning her to leave the Premier’s house, as it was intended to bomb it. The police did not take the message seriously; nevertheless, as a precaution, they guarded the homes of Mr Stevens, Mr Bruxner, and three other Ministers.