IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.! Melbourne, May 21. Anderson’s death sentence has been commuted to one of imprisonment for life.
i.A Melbourne cablegram, dated February 9, said:—Walter James Anderson was charged with murdering Frederick John Flint, who was poisoned by jam containing strychnine. Anderson is a married man, and made love successfully to a girl who was keeping company with Flint. The jury disagreed, and accused was remanded. Anderson was subsequently re-ti ied and sentenced to death.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 14, 22 May 1913, Page 5
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