SENTENCE COMMUTED.
IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE. Received April 23, 10 a.m. ADELAIDE, April 23. T)io death sentence passed on Thomas William Ashby, a news vendor, aged 65, has been commuted to imprisonment for life.—Press Association.
Ashby murdered an elderly man named Robert James Trenorden at W. Burton’s carrying yards, Beverley, South Australia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 5
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51SENTENCE COMMUTED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 5
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