MURDER OF AN ATHLETE
CONDEMNED MAN" LOSES REASON (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) . (Australian & N.Z. Cable. Association) London; i4th Jan. John Rowlands, one of the three men condemned for the murder of David Lewis, a, Cardiff footballer, lost his reason and will be confined- in Broadmoor asylum. ' I'.• ■■ ': '•■. '■• ". ,' ■: There is considerable; criticism of the delay of 37 days in hearing the appeal, which was dismissed on Thursday. This, it is staged, -was duo to the intervention of the Christmas holidays.. Newspapers declare that it was not in accordance with British justice that there should be such a long delay and consequent suspense. The other two men were taken to Cardiff to await execution. V. .':
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 17 January 1928, Page 5
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