JAMES EXECUTED
DEATH PENALTY
MURDER OF MRS SMITH.
(Per Press Association, Copyright)
AUCKLAND, December 15,
Sentenced to death for the murder on June 3 of Mrs Cecilia Smith, George lEdward Jameg was executed at Mount •Crawford prison this morning. James slept well last night and sub- ' mitt-?d quietly to being pinioned.. The profession from the condemned cell to the scaffold was headed by the sherriff, Mr W. W. Samson. Then came the superintendent of the prison, two warders two Salvation Army officers, the condemned man and chief warder, jtho hangman ]amd 'representatives of the press.
James mounted the scaffold unaided, and less than . three minutes elapsed from the time the procession left the cell until the bolt was drawn. When asked if he had anything to say, James replied. "Good-bye everybody, may God have mercy on my soul.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1933, Page 5
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