MURDERED HIS COLONEL
Efforts are being made in England to persuade the Home Secretary to release Lieutenant Austin C. Duffield, who, in June, 1927, was found guilty of murdering Lieutenant-colonel J. S. Fitzgerald, his commanding officer. Lieutenant Duffield was condemned to death, but a week later the sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. Lieutenant Duffield was an officer in the East Surrey Regiment stationed at Gibraltar, and, following the murder of Colonel Fitzgerald, he said: “It was better that one man should die than that the whole regiment be ruined.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23413, 31 January 1938, Page 15
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92MURDERED HIS COLONEL Otago Daily Times, Issue 23413, 31 January 1938, Page 15
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