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PUBLISHER TO STAND TRIAL “TO STOP THIS KIND OF THING.” Australian and N Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 16. Major Blake, retired ex-Governor of Pontonville Prison, who recently wrote a series of articles in a London newspaper dealing with prominent murderers and inmates of Pentonville, was summoned at the Mansion House under the Official Secrets Act in connection with tho publication of a conversation with Bywaters, who was executed on January 9th, 1923, in which it was alleged that the last thing Bywaters said was that Mrs Thompson was innocent, while in fact she was executed the same day. Prosecuting counsel said that the Government hoped the prosecution would help to stop this kind of thing, because scores of people believed that the last words a man spoke must bo true. Blake also, was not entitled to divulge Bywaters’s confession, namely: “I am sorry I murdered Thompson.” Blake was committed for trial.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 7
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154SCAFFOLD SECRETS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 7
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