THE DEATH SENTENCE.
AGITATION FOR REMISSION, By lWesraph.—Pre«s Aa»oola,tlon-Cojyrighl (Reo. August 15, 8.30 p.m.) , Sydney, August 15. There is a strong agitation on foot, to induce the Government to reconsider the case of William Wright (6an/tenoed to doaitih for tho murder of a girl named Myrtle Caldwell), on the ground that he is mentally weak. Tiro petition was signed by many thousands at a mooting which had boon arranged in the Town Hall.
On July 21 last Cabinet deoided that Wright should suffer the extromo penalty.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 5
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86THE DEATH SENTENCE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 5
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