AFTER MANY YEARS
SENSATIONAL RELEASE FROM PRISON United Pre*B Association—By Elea trio T«*lecraph —Copvrteht (Received May 5, 6.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, May 4. Valentine Shortis (aged 60), sentenced to life Imprisonment has been freed after serving 42 years. He killed two clerka during ths robbery at a cotton factory. Cabinet refused to commute the death sentence but Lord Aberdeen, the Governor-General, commuted it. On the night set for the hanging a crowd of 500 stormed the Quebec gaol but the Sheriff escaped with the prisoner to Montreal. The charges that the reprieve was due to Lord Aberdeen’s friendship with the Shortis family in London cost the Government a by-election.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20720, 6 May 1937, Page 7
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