NEW PLYMOUTH MURDER CASE.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, presiding at a meeting of the Executive Council yesterday, and acting on the advice of his Ministers, cpmmunted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death .passed on Alexander Townsend for the murder of his wife, Cora Alice Townsend, at Eitzroy. Townsend was sentenced to death at New Plymouth by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, on November 19. The trial lasted four days, and the defence advanced was that accused had committed the ciime while in a state of insanity.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4547, 23 December 1930, Page 3
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92NEW PLYMOUTH MURDER CASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4547, 23 December 1930, Page 3
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