WIFE MURDERED.
MINER SENTENCED TO DEATH.
AFFECTING SCENES AT TRIAL,
(BT CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTBALIAif AXD N.Z. CABLX . ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 10th, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 16. There was a painful scene at the Durham Assizes after John Thomas Dunn, a miner, had been found guilty of the murder of his wife, whom, it is alleged, he strangled and then hung from pegs in the kitchen as though she had committed suicide. The Judge was putting on the Black Cap when Dunn, whose children had given evidence, cried out: "It is time the law was altered. It has been said that a little child shall lead us, but to-day a little child has condemned me. Christ said: 'Father, forgive them.' I forgive my children because they do not know what they do. God help them. God help me." The Judge then pronounced sentence of death while many in the Court sobbed. One of Dunn's little boys ran out into the street screaming: "My father is going to be hanged."
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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168WIFE MURDERED. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19160, 17 November 1927, Page 9
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