WORRELL REPRIEVED
SENTENCE COMMUTED TO LIFE' IMPRISONMENT.
(Reo. June 15, 11.15 p.m.)
Sydney, June 15. The sentence on Leslie. Worrell haa been commuted to imprisonment for life.—Press Assn.
[Ex-Constable Worrell was found guilty of murdoring his wife, and was sentenced to death. Mrs. Worrell's body was discovered 'in scrub at Woronora Park, near Sutherland, with a bullet wound in the temple. At his trial Worrell made a statement that the deceased, during a fit of mad jealousy because lie had married his first wife while on service in England, Matched a revolver and shot herself dead, and that fear prevented him from reporting the circumstances. . Worroll's first wife died shortly after reaohlng Australia.]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 224, 16 June 1920, Page 7
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113WORRELL REPRIEVED Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 224, 16 June 1920, Page 7
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