REPRIEVE GRANTED
BRITISH WOMAN IN CHINA FATALLY STABBED HER LOVER. SHANGHAI, December 12. The last official act of the British Minister (Sir Miles Lampson) prior to his departure to assume the High Commissionership of Egypt, was the granting of a reprieve and commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment on Mrs Katherine Hadley, the first British woman sentenced to death in China following the fatal stabbing of her lover, Captain Walter Youngs, a mariner.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 9
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74REPRIEVE GRANTED Otago Daily Times, Issue 22136, 14 December 1933, Page 9
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