THE FITZROY MURDER.
SENTENCE COMMUTED. IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. (Peb United Pbebs Association.) WELLINGTON, December 22.
The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, presided at a meeting of the Executive Council to-day, and, acting on the advice of his Ministers, commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death passed on Alexander Townsend for the murder of his wife, Cora Alice Townsend, at Fitzroy. Townsend was sentenced to death at New Plymouth by the Chief Justice (Mr Justice Myers) on November 19. The trial lasted for four days. The defence advanced was that the accused had committed the crime while in a state of insanity. The body of Mrs Townsend was found in a house at Fitzroy after several visits during the night hy Townsend, who was separated from his wife.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21216, 23 December 1930, Page 10
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127THE FITZROY MURDER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21216, 23 December 1930, Page 10
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