CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
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(Received this day at 1.80 p.m.) LONDON, July 2,
A prison Chaplain, R. 13. R. Granville Murray, dramatically revealed before the Capital Punishment Commission, a narrow escape from 'being strangled by a murderer. Producing a rope in the form of a. noose he said, “As I entered the condemned man’s cell on the night before the execution, a rope flicked past my face. The man said he meant to strangle the first entrant adding if they -rant murder they will have it.” Granville did not regard murder as the worst crime.
Doctor M. Hamblin Smith, of Birmingham Prison, strongly opposed hanging. He had witnessed thirty executions and hag seen the condemned men daily at long, interviews and learned to ikiflw them well. There should be degrees ot murder, the firstonly carrying execution. He would abolish black cap invocation of the Dietv and Amen. A sheriff’s chaplain said there should be no prison gate bulletin and no bell, and furthermore the judge should attend executions.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1930, Page 5
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171CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1930, Page 5
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