AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR
INNOCENT MAN'S REPRIEVE. SAVED FROM ELECTROCUTION FOURTH NEW YORK CASE. A. and X.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, Sept. 15. A man named Thomas Bambrick, who was to have been electrocuted at Sing Sing to-day on a charge of murdering a policeman, has been proved innocent by new evidence which has been forthcoming. •; This is the fourth case which has j been reversed by new evidence within the last two months in which | an accused person has been convicted j of. murder, in New York when he was probably innocent. A farmhand j named Stielow was similarly reprieved on the eve of his electrocution last month. ■ • . | In the case of two other convicts' undergoing sentences of 20 years' imprisonment for murder one has been granted a new trial and the other i will unquestionably be granted a new trial on the evidence furnished to-day by men who have been arrested and who swear that they committed the crime. A strong feeling is growing in favour of a reform in the methods of the Public Prosecutor's office in conducting trials of persons charged with offences for which the death penalty is imposed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16337, 18 September 1916, Page 4
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