TWO DEATH SENTENCES,
l ' COMMUTATIONS MADE, B* TeleeraDh—Preee Assoclatlon-Couj right (Roc. April 15, 9.25 p.m.) Sydney, April 15. The sentence of death passed on Hugh ' )uncan, aged sixteen, found guilty of tho murder of John Connolly in November, has been commuted, and ho will be detained during tho Governor's pleasure. Tho jury made a recommendation to mercy on account of deficiency of intellect. For feloniously wounding Lilian Lambert with intent to murdpr, Frederick William Adams was sentenced to death on March 2 1, but tho sentence has now been commuted io twelve years' penal servitude. ("Adams, who was strongly recommended to mercy, shot his cousin, Miss Lambert, whom ho had courted for years. Tho wt>man married, another, and jealousy was the causo of the crime.]
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 7
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125TWO DEATH SENTENCES, Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 7
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