RENNIE TO BE HANGED
LABOUR CABINET'S DECISION REVERSING TTS POLICY. By Telegraph.—Prow Assn.—Copyright. PERTH, July 23. The Executive Council decided that the death penalty imposed on Royston Rennie for tho murder of a bank clerk, J. R. Greville, on June 4th, should he carried out, thus reversing the Labour Party’s policy of the abolition of capital punishment. Rennie deliberately shot Greville, who, with another bank clerk, was taking money from a suburban bank into Perth by train, and decamped with tho money, after shooting the other clerk. Greville died within an hoiuu. c
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12507, 24 July 1926, Page 5
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