LIFE SENTENCE
CRAIG’S PENALTY COMMUTED (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY. September 18. The N.S.W. Cabinet have commuted the death sentence on Eric Craig, for murder, passed on June Bth, to life imprisonment. Craig is never to be released. Craig had throe trials, the jury in two instances disagreeing. Then these followed appeals to the higher court, which failed. Craig had previously been convicted of manslaughter, and had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Thus he has twice received a life sentence , in relation to the deaths of two women, who' were brutally murdered within 0a brief period in Sydney. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1933, Page 5
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97LIFE SENTENCE Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1933, Page 5
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