HEINOUS CRIMINAL
BENNETT TO BE HANGED,
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DECISION. (Received 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, September .14. The Victorian Executive Council today decided that the death sentence should be carried out on David Bennett, aged 59, convicted of a capital offence against a four-yenr-old girl at Carlton, and he will he hanged on September 2(5. The last execution for a similar crime took place 41 years ago. Bennett, however, was previously convicted in Western Australia for the same sort of offence. He received a flogging and imprisonment for life, but. was released after a portion of the sentence had been served. Later he 'was convicted of robbery under arms in company with Angus Murray, receiving a sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. Murray ,• was executed in 1924 for shooting and killing a bank manager. This was the last execution in Melbourne, and it is a coincidence that Bennett now- will share Murray’s fate.
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Northern Advocate, 15 September 1932, Page 5
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