JUMP TO DEATH
FEAR OF CAT O’ NINE TAILS. PRISONER FALLS 25 FEET TO STONE FLOOR. > (Rec. 55 p.m.) London, February 3. Fear of the cat o’ nine tails led a 39-year-old man named James Spiers, who was sentenced on Friday to ten years’ penal servitude and 15 strokes of the cat for a brutal attempt to rob a city cashier, to leap over the banisters and fall headlong 25 feet to the stone floor of the Wandsworth prison. He died a few minutes after being sent to ■ the hospital. Spiers was being led to the triangle when he broke away in the presence of the officials and visiting Justices. The Daily Express uses the incident as an argument for the abolition of this form of punishment.
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Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 5
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