DEATH OF CONVICT.
LEAP TO STONE FLOOR.
FEAR OF BEING FLOGGED.
LONDON. Feb. 3. Fear of the cat-o'-nine-tails led James Spiers, aged 37, who was sentenced on Friday to penal servitude for 10 years and 15 strokes of the cat for a brutal attempt to rob a city cashier, to leap over tho bannisters at Wandsworth Prison. He fell headlong 25 feet to a stone floor, and died a few minutes after in hospital. Spiers was being led to the flogging triangle when he broke away, in the presence of officials and visiting justices. The Daily Express uses the incident as an argument for the abolition of this form of punishment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20481, 5 February 1930, Page 11
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