WANTED TO DIE.
PRISONER OBJECS TO REPRIEVE. KILLED FAMILY OUT OF SiJdPATHY • John Buchanan Piri ; formerly of the Royal Air Forcu, who was sentenced <o be hanged for the murder of a woman and two little children in Ottawa lust October, has been reprieved until Juno 19 by a. dee sion of the Canadian Can inet. The reprieve was granted that further investigations should be made Dy the al.cnists into Ririe’s mental condition, Pirle declared that lie hal killed the fam ly because he could not bear to see then suffer want when he was unemployed. When Ririe was notified of the reprieve he expressed resentment, and objeted to any change from liis sentence.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2440, 13 May 1925, Page 4
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