TRAGEDY OF POVERTY
KEPRIEVE FOE MAN WHO NOT SRE TITS CHILD STARVE. London, July 24. The Home Secretary lias reprieved Thomas Kiloran, who was sentenced to death at Birmingham last week for the murder of his three-year-old son. The story of the tragedy at the trial was one which moved the judge and jury to pity. The man, who was an old soldier and had saved a comrade's life when on active service, had not the courage to , watch his children die of slow starvation when the coal, strike threw him out of , work. For about a week before the tragedy r there was no fire and no food in, the i hoiise. When the jury made a strong recomj menelation, Killoran remarked: "I do
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 101, 14 September 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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125TRAGEDY OF POVERTY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 101, 14 September 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)
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