Reduction of a Sentence.
THE CASE OF LIEUTENANT |i i ! WARKE. :|:i i | A further amendment has bma I made in the sentence of life imprisonment passed on Lieutenant R. . ''fflf 1 Warke, formerly of the Royal Af tilled,; who was originally sentenced to po i hanged in connection with the death \ of Miss J.-ine Yates, a member of a well-known Liverpool family. L ■ . ., : . The deceased's end was held to have • j, been brought about by an illegal i|fi ' operation, in which the accused as-*' ■ sisted. Subsequent to the reprie^Bjniji -«} the condemned man and the subsißfttion of imprisonment for life instead i^'*! the death penalty, complaints were :| made that Mr Justice Phillimorc, before' ■' : whom Warke was tried, displayed bias ' ' against the prisoner. A petition was > presented to the Queen bearing 20,000 ! signatures, asking for the prisoner's : release. The whole matter has since been : considered by the authorities, the . result being that the sentence has been further reduced to one of three years' imprisonment.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1899, Page 2
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163Reduction of a Sentence. Manawatu Herald, 12 January 1899, Page 2
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