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REPRIEVE REFUSED

4 MURDERER'S MENTAL CONDITION. (Rec. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 9. Tho Home Secretary has refused to reprieve F. R. Holt, who was sentenced to dea-h for murder. Mr. Marshall Hall, who defended Holt, took the unusual action of writing a letter expressing his belißf that Holt was insane, pointing out that the English law does not hang madmen. The Home Secretary states that a final decision was reached only nfte.- a special medical inquiry into Holt's mental condition. The execution has been fixed for April 13.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu. [Holt was convicted and sentenced to deat'i for the murder of a woman named Breaks, whose body was found on the sandhills at St. Anne's-on-Sea, near Blackpool. An appeal on the man s bshnlf for permission to perform a surgical operation to discover whether brain disease existed, such as made lum irresponsible, was dismissed.!

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 5

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REPRIEVE REFUSED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 5

REPRIEVE REFUSED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 168, 12 April 1920, Page 5

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