SENTENCED TO BE HANGED
LONDON, June 15. An American military court in South Wales imposed sentence of death by hanging on two American coloured soldiers for offences against a woman of Barry, aged 30. Site was crossing a field toward a hospital where she had been a patient when she was intercepted by two men who threatened her with violence before the offences were committed. Next day the woman picked out accused from a parade of 800 coloured men. Their defence was that it was a case of mistaken identity.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 8
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90SENTENCED TO BE HANGED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 223, 17 June 1944, Page 8
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