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PODMORE TO HANG FOR GARAGE MURDER HOME SECRETARY’S EDICT LONDON, Saturday. The Home Secretary, Mr. J. R. Clynes, has declined to advise interference with the death sentence passed on William Podmore for the murder of Mr. Vivian Messiter at Southampton. An unusually lengthy communication from the Home Office deals with several points which were publicly raised. It concludes by stating that in Mr. Clynes’s mind there is not a scintilla of doubt of the prisoner’s guilt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 952, 21 April 1930, Page 10
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78NO REPRIEVE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 952, 21 April 1930, Page 10
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