WEIRD STORY.
EVIDENCE AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 16. A weird story of a man who underwent capital punishment and committed murder afterwards, formed part of Sir Simon Von Deraa’s evidence before the Capital Punishment Committee. The man was hanged, but not in the direct way. When the executioner came to take him off, he found he had lost his senses but was alive. He gave him money to escape. The man became a hospital servant. Three years later he killed a hospital patient. Sir Simon recited another case of a man who committed murder after witnessing an execution two days before.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18622, 18 July 1930, Page 9
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107WEIRD STORY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18622, 18 July 1930, Page 9
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