A TRIPLE MURDERER HANGED
LONDON, August 13. A Wesleyan minister thrice daily visited Smith, the wife murderer, who said he was grateful for his spiritual help. Smith aged remarkably, and was suffering from nervous prostration. He was unable to walk to the scaffold, and had to be supported by the warders. For the first time in many years reporters were not admitted. A crowd of men in khaki and well-dressed women were at the gaol gate. The murderer's last letter was to a Miss Pegler, in which he stated that he had failed to obtain justice from earthly judges, and would prefer death to imprisonment. “An innocent man,” he added, “ goes to an untimely end, the victim of a cruel fate. God alone is my Judge. I shall have perfect peace.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 62
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