PRISON CONFESSIONS
EX-GOVERNOR TO BE TRIED DIVULGING OFFICIAL SECRETS IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLE The former governor of Pcntonville Prison, who in a series of newspaper articles published a conversation'with a man condemned for murder, has been committed for trial on the charge of divulging official secrets. BY Telegraph.—pebss association. Copyeight. London, November IG. Major Blake, retired, and ex-Gover-uor of Pentonville Prison, who recently wrote a series of articles in a London newspapers dealing with prominent murderers and inmates of Pentonville was summoned at the Mans'ion. House under the Official Secrets Act in connection with the publication of a conversation with Bywaters, who was executed on January 9, 1923, iu which it was alleged that tlie last thing Bywaters said was that Mrs. Thompson was innocent, while in fact she was executed the same day. Prosecuting counsel said that the Government hoped the prosecution would help to stop this kind of thing, because scores of people believed that the last words a man spoke must be true. Major Blake, also, was not entitled to divulge Bywaters’s confession, namely: “I am 'sorry I murdered Thompson.” Major Blake was committed for trial.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 11
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188PRISON CONFESSIONS Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 11
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