HIS LAST WORRY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 9

HIS LAST WORRY

FOX. MURDERER. NOW IN DIVORCE SUIT TO BE HANGED TODAY United F.A. —By Telegraph—Copyright * Reed. 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Monday. A decree nisi was granted George Morse, captain of a Shire liner, as the ' result of liis wife’s misconduct with Sidney Harry Fox, who is to be j hanged tomorrow for the murder of ; his mother at the Hotel Metropole at j Margate last year. The condemned man . refused to appeal against the death sentence. : Also he was emphatic that no plea of j insanity should be entered, not want to prolong the agon}'.” he wrote : to his solicitors. Fox, unaware of the divorce action decided today, is still maintaining his innocence. “I shall die innocent,” he told his last visitor today. It was Fox’s own instructions that there should be no to his solicitors he wrote that he had had a fair trial, and said: “If it is justice that I die, then nothing more can be done. I accept my hard fate.” A last-minute petition for reprieve from the Mission of Intercession was handed in at the Home Office, claiming grounds of mental instability. At his trial in March Fox, in crossexamination; admitted that he was cited as the co-respondent in the case of Captain Morse against his wife, who is a wealthy Australian, and who returned to Australia in 1929. She had lived with him and his mother for three years. Mrs. Morse loaned them money. He insured her life at her request, and she willed him some money.