EASTBOURNE MURDER.
APPEALS DISMISSED. By T—Pr**u Aaacclation— Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, r Received January 19, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 18. The Eastbourne beach murder -appeals were dismissed. (A previous message stated that two men, Field and Gray, who were sentenced to death ior the murder of a girl at Eastbourne in August last, are making sensational efforts to escape with their lives, in an appeal against the sentence by accusing each other of the crime. Field declares that Gray confessed that ho stunned tlie girl and, he understood. buried her alive. Gray denies Field’s story, alleging that Field admitted that he himself killed the girl, because she smacked his face.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16329, 19 January 1921, Page 7
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111EASTBOURNE MURDER. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16329, 19 January 1921, Page 7
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