HOW KISMET TRAILED JOHN RILEY
♦ : Sentenced To Death, Released and Arrested Again A DEATH-BED CONFESSION (From "Truth's" Special Brisbane Representative.) .-.'.- ;. / This is. the story of. John Riley, seaman, and later a miner, who was sentenced~to death m Queensland for the murder of Sparks, the first mate of th% barque Kitty, at Rockhampton, m 1886. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. Riley had served not more than eleven years of his sentence when Radford, the second mate of the Kitty, m a death-bed confession m England, took on himself the responsibility of the thrust that killed Sparks. : - ;; •;: : Itiley was liberated; but it is said that, later, he compensated for the murder he did not commit m Queensland by committing one m England. Fate clutched him this time, and the murderer's end was his. '■'..• •
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NZ Truth, Issue 1050, 7 January 1926, Page 7
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134HOW KISMET TRAILED JOHN RILEY NZ Truth, Issue 1050, 7 January 1926, Page 7
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