THE NORGROVE MURDER.
PETITION FOR REPRIEVE. TO BE CIRCULATED THIS WEEK. ’ AUCKLAND, May 19. Next week a petition to the Governor-General-in-Council, praying for the reprieve of Allan George Norgrove, who is under sentence of death for the murder of his sister-in-law, Ernistina Mary Norgrove, will be circulated in the city .(says the Sun). The' petition is being prepared by Mr Allan Moody, who was Norgrove’s counsel. It is expected that the petition will be supported by the Howard League for Penal Reform, which recently condemned the system of capital punishment. ■ -i-• ■> .
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Otago Witness, Issue 3871, 22 May 1928, Page 50
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91THE NORGROVE MURDER. Otago Witness, Issue 3871, 22 May 1928, Page 50
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