INNOCENT MAN LASHED
FREE PARDON GRANTED BY KING COMPANION’S CONFESSION LONDON, Saturday. How tlie wrong man received 15 strokes of tlie cat-o-niiie-tails has been revealed by the King’s grant of a free pardon to James Stranex. This man was convicted of assault and robbery in 192 Sin connection with an armed raid on a post office ■ a sentenced I>> three years’ penal servitude and to the lash, as was another man. Later the second man confessed to a. chaplain that Stranex had taken no part in the rg,id. He said he first saw Stranex when he was placed in the dock. The Northern Ireland Home Office made inquiries, with the result that Stranex was released.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 13
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115INNOCENT MAN LASHED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 13
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