PRISONER HANGS HIMSELF
WHILE AWAITING TRIAL
(United Pre»« Association—By Eleotrlo 'Telegraph—Copyright)
SYDNEY, 9th January. Stanley Jackson, aged 18 years, hanged himself with a strip of blanket at Long Bay gaol overnight. He was awaiting trial for the murder of Mrs Gershel, aged 87-years, whom he allegedly brutally assaulted on 18tli December while trying to steal her handbag. She died from the effects of that ordeal on 2nd January.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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