WORRELL REPRIEVED
SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Press Association—Electric Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) SYDNEY, '-'Tuesday. The sentence on Leslie Worrell has been commuted to imprisonment for. life. ... ~ ~ . (Ex-Constable Worrell was found guilty of murdering his wife, unj was sentenced to death. Airs WdrrelJ \s body was discovered in scrub at Woronora Park, near Butlibflapd/vVi'th.a bullet wound in! the' temjile, At bis .trial, Worrell • made a statement..that the dew ceased, during a lit oT.iinad -.-. jealousy beeguse- he had married 'his '.first AVife* : while ' on ' servite ;in, fihiglabdpWhatehed' a revolver and shot herself ddad, and that fear prevented Mm 4 from" report- 1 jpg the,.vimniistance i i.. .Worrell’s first, wife died shortly after reaching Aus-. tralia.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14144, 16 June 1920, Page 5
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