THE WELLINGTON MURDERER
SENTENCE OF DEATH COMMUTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington, Wednesday. . j Claude Paget, who was sentenced to death for the. murder of Eleanor Axup, is not to suffer the extreme penalty of the law. .' '. The Cabinet, after giving full consideration to the recommendation of , the jury that the prisoner was an epileptic, and was in one of the stages of epilepsy when he committed the deed, lias advised the Governor to commute the sentence. -
This has been clone, and Paget is to be imprisoned for.the term of his natural life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13451, 30 May 1907, Page 5
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92THE WELLINGTON MURDERER New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13451, 30 May 1907, Page 5
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