MURDER AFTER HANGING
WIERD INCIDENT DISCLOSED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July' 16. A wierd story of a man who underwent capital punishment and committed suicide afterwards formed part of Sir Simon Von der Aas’ evidence before the capital punishment committee. A man was hanged, but not in the direct way. When the executioner came-to take him down he found he had lost his senses, but was alive. He gave him money to escape. The man became a hospital servant, and three years later killed a hospital patient. Sir Simon reported another case of a man who committed murder after, witnessing an execution two days before.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1930, Page 14
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