ACT OF CLEMENCY
BRITISH MINISTER LEAVES CHINA. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright SHANGHAI, December 12. Thfe last official act of the British Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, prior to his departure to assume the High Commissionership of Egypt, was the granting of a reprieve, and commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment on Mrs Katherine Hadley, the first British woman sentenced to death in China, following the fatal stabbing of her lover, Captain Walter Young, a mariner.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19672, 14 December 1933, Page 3
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76ACT OF CLEMENCY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19672, 14 December 1933, Page 3
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