The Windsor-Rainhill Tragedies
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright (per press association. Melboubne, May 16. Mr Lyle has petitioned the Governor to grant a respite for a week in Deeming's case to enable an appeal to be made to the Privy Council. Mr Lyle informed the Governor the appeal had reached London on Friday last. The condemned man is breaking down under the close confinement. In a letter to the Times Dr Strahan declares that JDeeinin^'s etory in regard to insanity in his family is a tissue of untruths. May 18. Lord Hopetoun says he seen nothing to justify delay in Deeining's execution, but Mr Lyle 19 preparing a further petition. London, May 17. Deeming's petition will be presented to the Privy Council on Wednesday, and heard on Thursday. Two barristers have been retained to appear in support of the petition which been sent to Lord Knutsford, and to argue that a respite should be granted the condemned man. The grounds of the petition, which will be presented to the Privy Council in Deeming's case are the character of the medical evidence tendered at the trial in Melbourne and the affidavits made by the condemned man's brother and sister-in-law as to bis sanity.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 138, 19 May 1892, Page 2
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