APPEAL FAILS
CONDEMNED CHAUFFEUR DEATH SENTENCE STANDS LONDON. June 24 Ruling out the plea that Mrs. Rafctenbury and her chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, should have been tried separately on the charge of murdering the former's husband, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart. dismissed Stoner's appeal against the sentence of death passed upon him •without hearing the Crown's case and without permitting Stoner to give evidence. Crowds of people stood is a queue for hours awaiting the result. Mrs. van der Elst, a wealthy "social reformer who is leading a public campaign against the death sentence, sat with Stoner's counsel. She also paraded sandwichmen at the entrances to the Court building.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22145, 26 June 1935, Page 11
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