EXCITEMENT AT HULL.
CONDEMNED MAN'S FATE.
PUBLIC SEEK A REPRIEVE.
HOME SECRETARY'S- REFUSAL.
By Telegraph Press Association—Copyrich't. (Received 7.3 p.m.) A. and X.Z. LONDON. Dec. 6. There is unprecedented excitement nfc Hull owing, to Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, having refused to reprieve a young boiler-maker, William Smith, who was sentenced to death for killing a woman with whom he had lived because ho suspected her of infidelity.
Smith's mother tramped the streets for days and nights and obtained 90,000 signatures to a petition for her son's reprieve. She fainted when she was told of the Home Secretary's decision.
An eleventh-hour effort to change the decision is being made. Enormous crowds took part in a demonstration on Sunday. Processions marched to the prison crying, Hang the hangman.''
Men and women sang " Onward Christian Soldiers," " Throw Out the Lifeline," and " Abide With Me."
Iho Lady Mayoress and the Archbishop of ork are interesting themselves in the effort to obtain a reprieve. The trades unionists at Hull threaten to strike at noon on Monday unless the reprieve is granted. ' • ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18887, 9 December 1924, Page 9
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