THE DEATH PENALTY
TWO WOMEN SENTENCED
Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, December 12. (Received Dec. 13, at 8.35 p.m.)
Mr Justice Shearman has sentenced two more women to death, creating a judicial record. The jury strongly recommended both to mercy. ' Both were removed in a fainting condition. The first was sentenced for throwing a child from Tower Bridge, and theisecond for murdering a woman, who, it was alleged, had intrigued with prisoner’s husband. Counsel are preparing appeals.— A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18736, 14 December 1922, Page 7
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