CONDEMNED MEN TO DIE
REPRIEVE REFUSED CONSTERNATION IN CARDIFF gy Caltls.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Tanday. Sic Austen Chamberlain, acting as Homs Secretary in the absence of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, has refused to reprieve Edward Rowlands and Daniel Driscoll for the murder of David Lewis, a wellknown Welsh footballer.
THE third man, John Rowlands, who was also sentenced to death, lost his reason while awaiting the hearing of the appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal, which was rejected, and his sentence was respited. The decision that the sentence must stand and the executions take place in Friday has caused consternati. n in Cardiff, where the acting Home Secretary’s reply to the monster petition »as received by crowds in the streets, especially in the Roman Catholic district. Specisl editions of the newspapers sere quickly bought up. There were natty demonstrations. The police are ilready taking special precautions for be execution. It is announced that teople will not be allowed within 250 TOds of the prison, and special barriers will be erected. Sir Austen’s statement says that after most careful and anxious consideration he finds no grounds to jusify him, consistent with his duty to the public, in advising interference *ith the sentences.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 262, 26 January 1928, Page 1
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