SENTENCE COMMUTED
NEW PLYMOUTH MURDERER ( Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Executive Council decided to-day to commute tile sentence, of death passed on Cedric Jepsou, of New Plymouth, for the murder of his wife and two child ren. to sentence of imprisonment for life. The Executive Council chiefly based its decision oil the strong recommendation to mercy made by the jury, and the further unanimous recommendations of the jury to the same effect.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 8
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73SENTENCE COMMUTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17956, 7 December 1932, Page 8
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