SECOND EDITION. JOHN CHRISTOPHER HIGGINS
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED.
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE.
Per Press Association. Wellington, March 4
The Executive Council to-day decided to commute the death penalty imposed on John Christopher Higgins for the Waihi schol murders, to imprisonment for life, as it was considered that Higgins was, from the medical point of view, insane ■when he committed the murders.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 7, 4 March 1924, Page 6
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