SENTENCED TO DEATH.
MURDER OF EMPLOYER. COROWA' YOUTH'S CRIME. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. April 8. Tho 16-year-old youth, Thomas R. Mitchell, has been found guilty of murdering his late employer, Richard Pethybridge, at Corowa, and sentenced to death. The jury brought in a recommendation to mercy on account of his youth. Mitchell, in a statement from the wit-ness-box, said: When Pethybridge was dying he said to me: *' Say there was no poison in the place, and get away as quickly as you can." AGITATION FOR WILLIAMS. THE' PADDINGTON TRAGEDY. A. and N.Z. SYDNEY, april 8. There are numbers of letters in the papers and an agitation from other quarters against hanging Williams, who was found, guilty of the murder of his three young daughters at Paddington. The chief arguments in favour of leniency are doubts as to his sanity. Williams himself declined to enter an appeal, and both at the trial and since has requested that no movement be made to prevent the law taking its course, insisting that ho was in possession of his full mentality at the time he murdered his children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18680, 9 April 1924, Page 9
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184SENTENCED TO DEATH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18680, 9 April 1924, Page 9
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