CRIMES BY WOMEN.
QUESTION OF DEATH PENALTY
MRS. THOMPSON'S FATE.
Australian and N.Z- Cable Association. (Reed. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 12.
Mr. Justice Shearman, who tried Bywaters arid Mrs. Thompson for the Ilford murder, sentenced two more women to death, creating a judicial record. The jury strongly recommended both to mercy. Both were removed in a fainting condition. The first . was found guilty of throwing her child from Tower Bridge. The second murdered a woman whom she alleged had intrigued with her husband.
An appeal is being prepared in MrsThompson's case. It has not been decided whether Bywatera will appeal. His counsel is considering the desirability of a petition for reprieve on the ground of his youth.
The present feeling of the law authorities of the Home Office, it is declared, is against a reprieve. It is pointed out that younger prisoners than Bywaters have been hanged, and that if Mrs. Thompson is reprieved it will never be possible to execute a woman in future, however terrible may be her crime. The whole question of capital punishment for women is involved in Mrs. Thompson's fate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18273, 14 December 1922, Page 9
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185CRIMES BY WOMEN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18273, 14 December 1922, Page 9
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