IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE
Criminal With Bad Record
Press Association —Copyright. Melbourne, June’ 10. ’ An incorrigible criminal, John J Thomas Griffith, with a long jail re- ■ cord at Wellington and Christchurch, ! was sentenced to death alt Melbourne to-day for capital offences against women. His sentence has now - been commuted to life imprisonment. Griffith told (the court that his fath. sjr was murdered with a sandbag at I Dunedin many years ago.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 11 June 1937, Page 5
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70IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 454, 11 June 1937, Page 5
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