DEATH SENTENCE ON JAMES
EXECUTION AT MOUNT CRAWFORD.
MURDER OF MRS. CECILIA SMITH.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 15,
Sentenced to death for the murder at Brooklyn on June 30 of Mrs. Cecilia Smith, George Edward James was executed at the Mount Crawford prison this morning. . . . James slept well last night and submitted quietly to being pinioned. The procession from the condemned cell to the scaffold was headed by the sheriff, Mr. W. W. Samson, and then came the superintendent of the prison, two warders, two Salvation Army officers, the condemned man, and the chief warder, the hangman and representatives of the press. James mounted the scaffold unaided and less than three minutes elapsed from the time the procession* left the cell until the bolt was drawn When asked if he had anything to say James replied: “Good-bye everybody, may God have mercy on my soul.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1933, Page 5
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