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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1923, Page 3

THE DIRE PENALTY

Vt’STIIAI.IAN AND 5.7.. CAIII.R ASSOCIATION’. LONDON. January ft. Hon. Mr liridgemau (Home Minister' bus ret used to post pone 11: < execution of Mrs riiotnpson. The Bishop of Stepney visited liei and conveyed to liei a nu.-.-age fioni R.vv.titers that a cruel hoax bad been perpetrated. BYWATKRS AND MRS THOMPSON EX EC(’TED. EONDON. .Tanu.iry 9. Rywater- and Mr- Thompson have both been executed. FFR.TI lER PARTKTLARS. I'Reeeiv-d tlii, dav 111 9 Ml e. ii.t I.ONDON. Jan 9. Large ei’oa d- gathered outside Iloliowii.v and Pen toll vi lie j•r i- r 11 , -. A ri> 11 - spienoiis figure at Holloway "here Mrs Thompson was hanged. wa.- a woman carrying a sandwich hoard reading: “If tills woman i.- hanged the Judge and .1 ury are murd rei - aha." and on the (ither side ; “M urdei ca.-i . I o be a! iot i- 1 led by murder.” Ml’-. Tllolilpsoll 11 nistra I e all night, and continually under the doctor's care. At live n'eloek she was Ulleollseioiis 111 Ueenellts oi < oils' ,ell'c m-s- she a-ked for By waters. At nine, the hour ol the execution, -lie was only partially coliseum.- and had to he carried to the -eall'old. Rvwater- p.:-s,d a. lairiv good niglit at Pent uiivillr awoke artv. lie had a light hreakl'a-t and -mohed a cegiirei ti . and .-.eiit a m> —age ol thanks to the I lovernoi and oliieia Is. lie ..... H.cd lirmlv to tie, ■ -eall'old. It u slated the crowd outside I’enionvi Ile was unprecedented. AFFIRM THEIR INNOCENT E. FReeeiv d this dav at 1.5 pant. I.ONDON, Jan. 9. Mrs Thomson and Ry wilier.- made m , Mate lit he),ire exeeill inn. Both previoiislv tea (firmed their innocence. Mr- Tiiompsoii fold the chaplain: - ■■l leave the "arid with a clean eoitsejciiee regarding my husband s death.' 1

ItßUSiuniß ronU'iwne ! <***»• \ USTitAI.IAN AND N .'/. - CAIH/U ASisOl’F A'llON . LAPSANNE. January ft. |, is .; :ied that 80.000 TnrUi.-h |.,|.||S ate now ill Eastern Tlnaee. instead et lie- Kt)' :, i genda'iee- allived In tlie I.rmi-t ice m- The ie-t hare I:,.ell 1-1 . rnited in I'hraee h.v Relet I!.”'. TPII KS DRAFT TREATY. PA R 18. Jan. 9 The "Le Petit Parisieu's” Lati-ainie correspondent -tales the lurk- arc drafting a counter treaty. «hieh will 1,,, handed lo the Allies after they have (onipleted ilteii’-. Since the Id; i|it re ot the Paris Conference. the Turk.-, have lieen entisideeing the de,1.1.0f making sepal i.te treat te., « ill) Ihe Stale rep! rule I at 'be t ,inference.