MURDERER OF BANK CLERK IS TO HANG
DEATH SENTENCE WILL BE CARRIED OUT. By Telegraph. —Fress Assn. —Copyright. Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received Tulv 23. 10.5 am.) PERTH, July 23. The Executive Council decided that the death penalty imposed on Royston Rennie should I>e carried out, thus re versing the Labour Party s policy of the abolition of capital punishment. While two bank clerks were taking money from a suburb of Mavlands to Perth by train, one of them. J. R- Greville, aged twenty-two, was suddenly shot in the head and abdomen by a third man in the same compartment. The man then tried to shoot the other clerk, Douglas Favis, but his revolver jamined, and he hit Favis heavily on the head with the butt end of it. When the train arrived at Perth the man jumped out on the wrong side of the carriage, taking money amounting to £l7l with him. A signal man chased him for some distance, but he eventualh- made his escape. Subsequently Rennie was arrested and convicted of the crime.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17906, 23 July 1926, Page 9
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