REPRIEVE FOR MURDER
JUDGE AND TRUE CASE. ENCOURAGEMENT OF CRIME, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. CRocd. 6-5 p.m.) LONDON. June 12 Owing to the absence of the Homi Secretary, Mr. E. Shortt, questions in th< House of Commons regarding the reprievi cf Ronald True, who was sentenced t< death for the murder of a woman, wer< deferred. Mr. Justice Avory, in his charge to th I grand jury at the Devon Assizes, re marking on the lightness of the calendar said he much doubted whether the abate rnent of crime would continue if inflic tion of the penalties of the law was t te left to the discretion of Harley Stree experts, for the only real deterrent o crime was the certainty that the appro priate penalty would follow upon its com mision.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18116, 14 June 1922, Page 7
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133REPRIEVE FOR MURDER New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18116, 14 June 1922, Page 7
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