AT DEATH'S DOOR.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE FOUND WANTING. MEN REPRIEVED AT ELEVENTH HOUR. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.5 a.m.) New York, September 15. I Thomas Bambrick was to have been j electrocuted in Sing Sing prison toI day foi murdering a policeman, but he was reprieved owing to the proclucti ion of new evidence. I This is the fourth case of new testimony within two months of men being convicted for murder in New York and probably were innocent. A farm hand named Sticelow was similarly reprieved on the eve of his electrocution last month. Two other convicts are undergoing 20-years sentences for murder. One has been granted a new trial, and the other unquestionably will have a new trial on evidence furnished to-day by men who were arrested and swear they committed t*he crime. Strong feeling is developing for reform in the methods of public prosecutors in conducting trials for capital offences..
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 16 September 1916, Page 8
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156AT DEATH'S DOOR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 16 September 1916, Page 8
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