HANGMAN’S VIEWS
[United Press Association—By Eleetri<H| Telegraph.—Copyright.] <: H (Received this dav at 9. a.m.) • LONDON, Feb. 21. ■ The “Daily News” says Pierpontj 5 hVngmini,' is expected to give before the Committee of Capital PunH| iishnient that he does not favour abolition-' of hanging. VH Interviewed, he declared: ers when reprieved and sentenced, life imprisonment are a great - to ! 'country and no gjood' to themselves or to the Any man who commits murder to suffer the same penalty as his vicH| tim.” Pierpont has been executioner twenty years and is a robust sexagenarian. . He runs small confectionery shop near Brad H.. ford and works in a foundry.: HiHS wife pointed out that the chief of his job as executioner was that was not regular. “He does not mention hanging even to rue, When he returns frbtßj| one of them, he takes a good and goes to bed.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 4
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146HANGMAN’S VIEWS Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1930, Page 4
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