WANGANUI MURDER
COMMUTATION OF MANLY’S DEATH SENTENCE. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL’S REASONS. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, September 2. During the sitting of the House of Representatives this afternoon Mr R. A. Wright (R., Wellington Suburbs) asked the Minister of Justice (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe) ;W a matter of urgency if lie would inform the House why it was that F. Manly, who was recently convicted of the murder of a young woman at Wanganui, had had his death sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. The Minister replied that in recommending his Excellency the Governor-General to commute the sentence to imprisonment for life the Executive Council took into consideration the whole of the surrounding circumstances of the case, the. history of Manly’s life and reports 'from mental experts regarding Manly’s mental condition. Although Manly could not properly have been regarded as insane from a legal standpoint, he said, his mental condition and antecedent circumstances were deemed to be mitigating factors which justified commutation of the sentence.
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Southland Times, Issue 21178, 3 September 1930, Page 6
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