SANE OR INSANE?
CONDEMNED MURDERER. EXPERT TO REPORT. Br Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received March 21, 8.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Maroh 21. The question of Edward Williams’s sanity, the subject of much comment, has been set at rest. Sir John Macpherson, professor of peyohiatry at Sydney University, examined the man, and ia preparing a report for the Minster for Justice. QUITE WILLING TO DIE. After trial yesterday Williams told an interviewer that it ended as he expected. He did not hope justice would be tempered with mercy. He had "o fear of the hangman's rope. If his friends proposed to petition the Government he would urge them to do nothing.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 5
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