DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N7Z. Cable Association. (Receivved December 26. 1 p.m.) ADELAIDE, December 26. The sentence of death passed on John Charles Stewart has been commuted to imprisonment for fife. A quarrel at a railway construction camp near Copley, on the Oodnadatta line, resulted in Patrick Kelly, aged forty, being beaten into insensibility with a piece of sleeper, said a cable on September 3d. He died later. At the inquest John Charles Stewart, aged twenty-two, was committed for trial on a charge of murder. According to the police a number of men from the camp visited Copley and drank freely. They returned to camp and during a game of cards the two men quarrelled. Kelly’s skull was fractured, and his bbdy showed the marks of many heavy blows.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17729, 26 December 1925, Page 2
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