THE WILLOUGHBY HORROR
DEATH SENTENCE ON PHILLIPS COMMUTED. iSy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received October 25, 0.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 35. Cabinet to-day considered the case of William Phillips, who was sentenced to death for the murder of his child at Willoughby on April 19th. It was decided that although the crime was a revolting one the sentence should be commuted to imprisonment for life, and that steps should he taken to see that Phillips be never released. Ministers believed tho crime was not premeditated, and the death penalty was unlikely to deter other criminals who were likely to commit similar offences in a moment of excitement.
The crime was a particularly brutal one. Florence May Phillips, a bright little girl of eight, was found buried in some bush at Willoughby, a suburb of Sydney, She had. been frightfully injured, and had also been outraged. Her father. William Phillips, twenty-eight years of age, a labourer, was untreated -and recently •convrlcted of tii© crime.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7268, 26 October 1910, Page 7
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