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PRISONER TUMPS OFF STAIRS TO DEATH SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY United l'*. A. —JE»y Telegraph — Copi/righ* Reed. 1.10 p.m. LONDON, Monday. Fear of the cat-o’-nine-tails led a 37-year-old man. James Spiers, who was sentenced on Friday to 10 years' penal servitude and 15 strokes of the cat. for a brutal attempt to rob a city cashier, to leap over the banisters and fall headlong 25 feet to the stone floor of Wandsworth Prison. He died a few minutes after being taken to the hospital. Spiers was being led to the triangle, when he broke away in the presence; of the officials and visiting .justices. The “Daily Express'’ uses the incident as an argument for the abolition of this form of punishment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 888, 4 February 1930, Page 9
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