THE LEWIS MURDER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9

THE LEWIS MURDER

CONDEMNED MEN’S LAST HOURS. MASSES SAID IN CHURCHES. (Press Association— By Telegraph—Copy rigoS ‘ LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 0.15 a.m.) The visit of the aged mother of Daniel Driscoll and her farewell to her son in the condemned cell caused remarkable scenes outside Cardiff gaol, and as she was leaving a great crowd surged round the grief-stricken women in efforts to shake her hand. It was only with difficulty that she reached a taxi cab. Liverpool trade unionists are asking that a general stoppage of work be called on Thursday if Sir Austen Chamberlain’s decision is not altered. Tire Roman Catholics are arranging for the Rosary to be recited outside the prison at the time of the execution as a dramatic last-minute effort to secure a commutation of the sentences of Rowlands and Driscoll. Nine members of the jury have signed a memorial which will be rushed to the Home Office this morning. This states that the jury was influenced by the allegation that the men were members of a gang, and that the jurymen think that two lives should not be forfeited for one. Masses for the doomed men have been said in many Roman Catholic churches in Wales.