CRIME IN AUSTRALIA
| DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED I * PA - Itv Electric Telegraph-Copyright* j SYDNEY, 9th June. ! j The sentences of death passed on j three persons for murder were com- , muted to imprisonment for life by the | Executive Council to-night. Fabian Fogi arty, 32, Harold Percy Smith, 33. and 1 Matilda Ann Edwards, 31, are those ; affected. The case of John Trevor ' Kelly, 24. was held over for further inquiry. Fogarty was convicted of the murder on 10th February of Mrs Edna Dixon, 24, and her sister, Gwendoline Murray, 15, at their station homestead at Bendermeer, and Smith and Edwards, were convicted of the murder on 21st December of Edwards’s husband near Taree. Kelly was convicted of the ! murder on 6th February of Marjorie Somerlad on a farm near Tenterfield.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 10
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129CRIME IN AUSTRALIA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 10
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