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ORGANISED PROTEST BY NEW SOCIETY
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 13
While the execution of Charles Malcolm Lake was being carried out at Pentonville, for the murder of George Hamblin, an inmate of a Westminster institution, members of a new society opposing the death penalty, demonstrated outside.
A procession of expensive cars, headed by Mrs Vanderelst, founder of the Society, slowly encircled the prison. Men and women prayed in the street.
Lake was convicted under the name of George Harvey, refusing to reveal his identity because the shock might kill his invalid mother, from whom the news is still kept. The Coroner told the jury that for purposes of execution the deceased was a person named Harvey.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20058, 15 March 1935, Page 11
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121EXTREME PENALTY Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20058, 15 March 1935, Page 11
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