IN GAOL FOR LIFE.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United .Press Association.) Melbourne, March 28.
The Executive Committee commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of death “recorded” by Mr Justice Hood last month against Frank Attenborough oh a charge of having criminally assaulted a girl, aged 12 years and 10 months, at Cherrytree, near Ballarat, on December 15th, 1912. Attenborough, who is 30 years of age, is a jockey, and at the trial a defence of insanity was raised. It was shown that he had been in Sunbury Asylum for ten weeks. It was decided that the prisoner should not get the benefit of the regulatons with respect to remission of portions of the sentences. He will, therefore, be required to spend the rest of his life in gaol.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 70, 31 March 1913, Page 5
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131IN GAOL FOR LIFE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 70, 31 March 1913, Page 5
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