PETITION FOR NORGROVE
REPRIEVE SOUGHT
VEXT week a petition to the Governor-General in Council, praying for the reprieve of Allan George Norgrove, who is under sentence of death for the murder of his sister-in-law, Ernistina Mary Norgrove, will be circulated in the city. The petition is being prepared by Mr. Allan Moody, who was Norgrove’s counsel. It is expected that the petition will be supported by the Howard Penal Reform League, which recently condemned the system o* capital punishment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 1
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79PETITION FOR NORGROVE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 1
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