EXECUTIONS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16161, 15 March 1918, Page 9

EXECUTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE FHESS. Si r I have wondered on each occasion in the past why the tamo of the execution ot a raurderei Khou d be advertised. and I re wondered still more why every detail of business should come out in full tht day following the caution. I ask,'dp I Lho people want this class ot news, is it uplifting, does it improve the minds oj either old or young - I -say, No and the greater majority -would, too, ntney had the cliance of voting the publication of such undesuable roadin 0 . On meeting one of your well-known and much-respected citizens to-day, I asked, "How are you?" and he replied. "I've not felt at all well lately, ancl 1 put it down to this Eggers business, tor ever since I read of the day lie was to lie executed, I've felt quite ill, and on Monday night I had lit-lo or no s eep. When this gentleman to.d his wile or the date she said: "Oh, I hoped I would not .sou or hear of it. ' i cThe above-mentioned two people, Sir, am in your midst, and havo only suffered as thousands of others have done. The greatest sufferers, of course, would l>e the Lvttolton residents. Much could be written about this unfortunate business. and other, too, of 110 interest or benefit to the public. My opinion is— and it is the same as that of numerous other people I have suoken to —is that when a man is found guilty and the death sentence passed, tho people would prefer to know nothing more about it other than a few words in tlic paper letj ting them know 'that the man in question -was cxccute'd yesterday, or, better still, yesterday week, for the murder of So-and-so, and that he did, or did not. make any confession. The public would be quite satisfied to know the law had caused him to bo put to death ! without a report such as w.is in the paper, which I consider is a disgrace to civilised, educated people.—Yours, etc., ADVANCE.