LIFE OR DEATH
BANDIT’S FIGHT TO DODGE SCAFFOLD FORTUNE TO ESCAPE LAW. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. Gerald Chapman, the super-bandit, is making a spectacular fight to save Lis neck, after having been sentenced to be hanged on December 3, for shooting a policeman in New Britain (Conn.) Chapman has probably killed a dozen men in his time, but the murder of the policeman is the only one that was proved, and this smooth young crook has spent much of his £400.000 fortune in trying to escape punishment for that. Months ago Chapman was sentenced to life imprisonment for a £200,000 postal robbery. To-day, President Coolidge commuted that sentence, in order that Chapman might be handed over to the hangman for the major crime. But. Chapman, through his highly-paid lawyers, declined to accept the commutation, He would sooner go on serving a life term for robbery than expiate the murder on the scaffold. The outlook is that Chapman’s life will last as long as his money does.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19475, 15 December 1925, Page 8
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