MAN KILLED, SIX BADLY HURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 263, 27 January 1928, Page 1

MAN KILLED, SIX BADLY HURT

“JUDICIAL MURDER” LAST-MINUTE EFFORTS TO SAVE DOOMED MEN SCENES AT CARDIFF GAOL By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Wednesday. The visit to the prison of the aged mother of Daniel Driscoll, who with Edward Rowlands has been refused a reprieve of his death sentence for the murder of David Lewis, the well-known footballer, and her farewell to her son in the condemned cell, caused remarkable scenes outside the Cardiff gaol. % As she was leaving the prison a great crowd surged round the griefstricke n-woman in their efforts to shake her hand. It was only with difficulty that she reached a taxi-cab. Mr. T. P. O’Connor, M.P., states that he has received a telegram from the Liverpool trade unionists asking liim to call a general stoppage of work on Thursday if the decision not to grant the men a reprieve is not altered. Mr. O’Connor says he has replied as follows: — “I cannot but personally approve even a general stoppage of work if it will stop what I consider to be a judicial matter." The Roman Catholic community is "arranging for the rosary to be recited outside the’ prison at the time of the execution as a dramatic last-minute effort to secure the commutation of the sentences. Nine members of the jury have signed a memorial which will be rushed to the Home Office this morning. This states that the jury were influenced by an allegation that the men were members of a gang and that the jurymen think two lives should not be forfeited for one. Masses for the doomed men will be said in many Roman Catholic churches in Wales.—A. and N.Z.