IN CONDEMNED CELL FOR SECOND TIME
Received Tuesdav, S.15 p.m. LOXDOX, Dec. 17. For Ihe second time .'hS-yea r-old Walter Rowland has waiked into the condemned cell at Strangways gaol, Manchaster, says the Daily Mail. Rowland in 1!K!4 was sentenced to death for the inurder of his t wo-year-old daughter Mavis. The jury on that occasion recomniended liiin to niercv aud tlie villagers of his home town, XewinilJs, Derbyshire, petitioned for liis reprieve whieh was -granted. A jury. ot three women and- iiine men yest erdav fonn.l him guilty of the murder of 40-year-oJd Olive Balehin whose battered body was I'ound in Manchester. Rowland, *.vh > pleaded not guilty, was, aeeording to Ihe Daily Herald, aecusod of atlempted inurder when only 19.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 December 1946, Page 5
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