LIFE IMPRISONMENT
DEATH SENTENCE COMMOTED.
(Australian Press . Association)
{Received this day at 9.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 13. Cabinet has commuted the death sentence on Eric Jones to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife at Cessnock on July 15.
ENGLISH WOMAN REPRIEVED.
(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, December 12.
The last official act of the British Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, prior to his departure to assume the High Commissionership of Egypt was the granting of a reprieve commuting the death' sentence to life imprisonment of Mrs Katherine Hadley, the first- British woman to be sentenced to death in Cbjina, following the fatal stabbing of her lover, Captain Walter, a young mariner.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1933, Page 5
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