HANGING DEFERRED
UNPRECEDENTED ACTION. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 2. A step, unprecedented in English law, was taken when the Home Office cancelled the date of the execution o f William Knighton, 22. for the murder of his mother, on the grounds of new evidence submitted by the de.iemling counsel, who declares that, medical evidence is to the effect that the crime was committed .automatically while under the inllnenee of an cpdcptic. Ilf.’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16307, 4 April 1927, Page 12
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75HANGING DEFERRED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16307, 4 April 1927, Page 12
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