CHILD MURDERESS
SENTENCE COMMUTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received January 23, 8 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 23. Tire death sentence on Boyd for the murder of a child has been cobmmuted to imprisonment for life. Josephine Boyd, convicted of murdering an infant by strangulation, was sentenced to death. Tho child’s body was found in a suitcase in the harbour with a handkerchief stuffed in its mouth. The evidence showed that Boyd, a single woman, came from New Zealand in April last.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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80CHILD MURDERESS New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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