CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13638, 4 July 1908, Page 5

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

A POLITICAL CONVICT

Press Association-By Xel«grapli Copyright LONDON, July 2.

■Siezyncki, the murderer of Count Potocki, has been sentenced lo death with a. recommendation to mercy. Count Potocki was the Governor of the Austrian province of Galicia, and the murderer was a. Ruthenian student of philosophy. The crime was the outcome of a racial feud between the Poles and the Ruthenians. AMERICAN SENTENCE COMMUTED. NEW YORK, July 2. The State Board of Pardons have commuted the sentence of Hany Orchard, convicted of murder, to imprisonment for life. He was to have been hanged tomorrow for having murdered Mr. Frank Stennenberg, a former Governor of Idaho. ADELAIDE EXECUTION. ADELAIDE, July 3. The-Press were not admitted to Coleman's execution. The Rev. Clark, who attended the doomed man, sta'es that, relying on that same sense of justice which precluded the Executive granting a reprieve, he could not r-ee how the proper authorises could avoid taking action •againfit. the publicans, who were unquestionably lawbreakers in allowing Coleman to rioai himself with whisky on their premises. He had never on Coleman's behalf pleaded for mercy at the expense of justice, but lie would be disappointed if an effort were not made to Tiling the men ivlio undoubtedly were accessories to the tragedy, to book. .