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MURDERER IN ENGLAND CONCEALMENT OF IDENTITY LONDON, March 13 While the execution of Charles Malcolm Lake was being carried out at Pentonville gaol for the murder of George Hamblin, an inmate of a Westminster institution, members of-a new society which opposes the death penalty demonstrated outside. A procession of expensive cars headed by one in which was Mrs, Van der Elst, founder of the society, slowly encircled the prison, while men and women prayed in the street. Lake was convicted under the name of George Harvey. He refused to reveal his identity because the shock might kill his invalid mother, from whom the news has been kept. The coroner subsequently told the jury that for the purposes of the execution deceased was a person named Harvev.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22059, 15 March 1935, Page 9
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