A PRISONER’S FEAR
A FATAL JUMP,
[United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph.—Copyright.]
LONDON, Feb. 3,
Fear of the cat o’ nine* tails led thirty-nine year old James Spiers, who was sen ten eel on Friday to ten years’ penal servitude and fifteen strokes of the cat for a brutal attempt to rob a city cashier, to leap over the bannisters and fall headlong twenty-five feet on to the stone floor of Wandsworth Prison. He died a few minutes after being sent to the hospital. Spiers was being led to the triangle lor the' punishment when he broke away, in the presence of the officials and the visiting justices. The “Daily Express’’ uses this as an argument for abolition of this form of punishment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1930, Page 3
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122A PRISONER’S FEAR Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1930, Page 3
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