THE FATE OF TWO CONVICTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10414, 12 April 1897, Page 5

THE FATE OF TWO CONVICTS.

[l)Y TELEOKAPH— SPKOIAL OOURKSPONDKM'.] Wkllington, Sunday, I UNDERSTAND tllO fllto of the COnVlCt Boaher, candoinnod to death for the Petono murder, will come boforo the Executive ' ouncil. Potitions have beon received trom those who are opposed to capital punishuiont as a question of principle, having for its prayer the commutation of the capital soutence. It is also objected to tho carrying odd of the sentence, Hint the evidence adduced at the trial left somo doubt as to its sufficiency to support the conviction. With regard to the other convict (Cliomia), petitions have been received for his release. These petitions have been largely signed, and will bo probably considered at the same mooting of the Council to-morrow. I undorstand that Mr. C. H. Mills, who hae been an eiiriiesu worker on behalf of this man from the dato ot his conviction to the present, finds that the doubt which had beon entertained nt first) has enlarged, and the petitioners for pardon becomn more numerous. They pray that the whole case of Glioma should be reconsidered, and further that the clemency of the Crown would be gracefully exercised on the completionof the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign, when all the subjects of her rust Umpire, nro rejuicing.