CONDEMNED MEN MAY BE REPRIEVED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 259, 23 January 1928, Page 1

CONDEMNED MEN MAY BE REPRIEVED

MURDER OF FOOTBALLER EVIDENCE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. . LONDON, Saturday. John Rowlands, Edward Rowlands There has been a somewhat sensational development in connection with the murder of the Cardiff footballer, David Lewis, for which three men, and Daniel Driscoll, were on December 2 sentenced to death. There is a definite medical challenge that Lewis did not die as a result of his injuries, but from heart failure. The documents are at present at the Home Office, where Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Foreign Secretary, is acting for Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who is on the Continent. The new evidence is stated to be the outcome of a Harley Street doctor’s personal in terest. It is said he motored 900 miles from the Riviera' in two days to take up the case. The condemned men are to be executed next Friday. The specialist does not want his name to be associated with the case. He admits it is a strong action to take, but when the facts from the doctor who conducted the post-mortem on Lewis were brought to his knowledge, it was the only course possible.

The condemned men’s lawyers hope the intervention will not only cause the execution to be cancelled, but will lead to their liberation. The case has caused intense excitement in Wales -where petitions for the accused men | have been signed by hundreds of thousands of persons.—A. and N.sp.