WILL NOT HANG
TOWNSEND’S PUNISHMENT IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE THE SENTENCE COMMUTED FITZROY MURDER SEQUEL By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last’Night The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, presiding at a meeting of the Executive ■■ Council to-day, arid acting on the advice of his Ministers, commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death passed oh Alexander Townsend for the murder of his wife,'Cora Alice Townsend, at Fitzroy; ’ ’ Townsend was sentenced to death at New Plymouth ly the Chief Justicp, Sir Michael Myers, on November 19. The trial lasted four days. The defence advanced was that accused had committed the crime while* in a state of insanity. The' body of Mrs. ■’Townsend was found in a house at Fitzroy after 'several • visits during the night of Townsend, who; was separated from his wife.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 8
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