First Death Sentence Since New Bill
Received Wednesday, 10.10 a.m.
LONDON, April 20. [ "The sentenee of the court is the. sentenee preseribed by law, namely that y©u suffer death by hanging," said" the Judge in 'the-Old Bailey, sentencing an Army deserter",'Donald George Thomas, aged 22, who I was found guilty .of the murder of Cons.tdble Nathaniel Edgar, in ; ■ a North ^London suburb on Febru- • Ary 13. . 5 ; The Judge did not wear the \ bfack cap. The chaplain, who 3 : normally stands behind the Judge 3 to utter "Amen," remained sitting S in the court. / Thofnas is the first man sen- ' tenced since tRe new Bill was passed suspending the death pen- 1 alty. It is understood that the 1 Judge's words will replace the cus- ' tomary formula until the Bill be- t comes law. . Ji
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1948, Page 5
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