DEATH SENTENCES CANCELLED
TWO MEN REPRIEVED Two men "under sentence of death for murder have been reprieved in hngland. The sentences have been commuted to penal servitude for life. One is Walter Graham Rowland, aged /b, labourer, of Mellor, Derbyshire who was sentenced to death atManohester in May for tho murder of his daughter, Mavis Agnes, aged two. Recently his wife gave birth to another child. Before being sentenced Rowland declared: "If I were guilty I should not deserve mercy. I am an innocent man. The jury added a strong recommendation to mercy. Rowland was accused of killing the girl by strangling her with a silk stocking. , , . Tho other man to be reprieved is Horace Wiggan, aged 29, a Barnsley miner, sentenced for the . murder of Mrs. Xda Perkins, with whom he had lived. Over 42,000 people signed a petition for Wiggan'B reprieve. . When tho news of the reprieve was received fit Barnsley the streets in the neighbourhood of his home Were decorated with flogs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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165DEATH SENTENCES CANCELLED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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