SMITH ON THE SCAFFOLD.
A NERVOUS WRECK. United Pkkss Association. (Received 12.25 p.m.) • ; V' London, August 13. ' A Wesleyan minister thrice daily visited JSmjth, who appeared grateful for spiritual help. He had aged remarkably. suffering from nervous prostration, and was unable to walk-to the scaffold, being supported by warders. This was the first.time for many years that reporters were not admitted. There was a crowd in khaki and many well-dressed women at the gaol gate. Smith’s last letter to Miss Pegler states that he had failed to obtain justice from earthly judges, and would prefer death; to imprisonment. He said:, “An innocent man goes to an untimely end. I am the victim of cruel fate.’ Hod alone is my judge. I shall hav*.;f£yi‘ect peace.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 5
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124SMITH ON THE SCAFFOLD. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 88, 14 August 1915, Page 5
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